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Letter writing kept alive in Kenya despite rise in internet use

Twenty-four-year-old Vincent Lukabo unsealed the brown envelope keenly and blew in some air to open it up before folding a typed letter and placing in.

He, thereafter, sealed the envelope with glue and handed it to his elder brother who was to send it for him at a post office in the city center in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.

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