See love letter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:",
"text": "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.",
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"sense": "letter about the author's love",
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "letter about the author's love",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "letter about the author's love",
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"word": "carta amorosa"
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"sense": "letter about the author's love",
"word": "ప్రేమలేఖ"
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"sense": "letter about the author's love",
"word": "మన్మథపత్రిక"
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "letter about the author's love",
"word": "จดหมายรัก"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "letter about the author's love",
"word": "aşk mektubu"
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"roman": "ljubóvnyj lyst",
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