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Since 1999, Found magazine has been collecting messages found in public areas and sharing them with the world. This week, the Toronto Star published an interesting profile of its founder, Davy Rothbart, on the occasion of his visit to Toronto.

This is the anonymous note featured in the story that I wish I had written to someone:
“I want to buy you a lot of pretty things and shyly offer them to you one at a time”

I hope the intended recipient read the note before it made its way into the public realm.

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