love always, marie

Fallen through the cracks;
- verb phrase. To be ignored, overlooked, mismanaged, or forgotten

The USPS processes 200 billion pieces of mail per year. 5.5 billion (3%) aren't deliverable as addressed - 1.3 billion are returned to sender, 2 billion are discarded, the rest are forwarded. Among those 200 billion pieces of mail was a plain white envelope; scrawny handwriting decorated the front and the back, messily spelling out the addresses. I don't know if someone took the time to ever calculate the odds of mail being lost - but what are the odds of my letter being in those 5.5 billion letters that weren't delivered as addressed?

Very good odds apparently.

Delivered a year too late, the plain white envelope brought back so many memories and changed the life of two people forever.

And all I did was send a letter.

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hella old story. did i decide to recycle it as a palaye fic? mmmm yeah! jesus christ. the cover will change, cuz this is just embarrassing.