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

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

I hope the intended recipient read the note before it made its way into the public realm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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