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Richard Feynman's Love Letter to His Wife
🕑 Added 2025-08-19 03:07:03 +0000 UTCI came across this letter dated from the 1900s written by Richard Feynman to his deceased wife (she passed from TB). They were a young married couple, still in their 20s. Even the small detail of their age gives me hope that true love is not restrained to being found in one's later years, that it doesn't have to develop into a strong bond, but can be one from early on. It just depends on the people. And these seem to have been two lovely people with a lovely love between them.
"You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive."
Such a seemingly sad line renders nothing more than beautiful to me. Thus, I decided to read this love letter out to you. For it sounds more like poetry than anything else.
Such a beautiful expression of love still given life even after one's death.
And that last line the letter concludes with was a cute little addition, humorous and bittersweet even.
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Comments
James
It's a heartfelt message to a loved one, and written by a man of uncommon depths. I am impressed that Lavendher stumbled across it, and further pleased that she chose to share it. However... Richard Feynman had a fairly thick "Noo Yawk" accent... which makes Lav's gentle Southern reading a tiny little bit incongruous 😉
Spookie Pookie
The 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt, wrote in his diary on Valentine’s Day 1884 after the passing of his mother and first wife, “The light has gone out of my life.” Love is out there for everyone, all they have to do is go out of their comfort zones and seek it. Yes, you will get hurt, it’s inevitable, but the hurt is what reminds you of all the good you will have whilst searching for a love that should be yours by right
