Word: matronic
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...letter was written in 1741, and Smith's mother died in 1784--having saved this particular letter for 43 years. Would even the most loving mother save a comparable e-mail? Surely one could print it out--many do--but it would take a truly saintly matron to preserve the cold legibility of computer type on flimsy white paper. Oh, for the days of illegible, personal scratches on parchment...