This long, leisurely correspondence seems now of another world, a fading reminder of the golden age of letter writing.
Rochford, an old mining town, is one of many fading reminders of those days.
While the downtown is dressed up with green banners that proclaim "Historic Catskill," many of its buildings, including some of those scheduled for demolition, are empty and rickety, their faded Italianate facades reminders of better days.
For two decades after the Soviet collapse, though, the building once called "the most beautiful house in Moscow" for its neo-Palladian architecture was a crumbling eyesore, a wrenching reminder of faded beauty.
The season-high five-game winning streak had faded into another harsh reminder of 2001 by the time the Mets were packing their bags and making their way to the idling buses beyond right field, not unlike the thousands of young campers who turned out for an early afternoon game yesterday and found there was not much to cheer about.
Their talk of running away together wasn't even given time to fade into an afterglow -- it faded into oblivion, a reminder that experiences are ephemeral and there is, more often that not, some form of ill-fated termination around the corner.
Out of habit, perhaps, the two men continued sending birthday and anniversary greetings long after these had become ritualized reminders of a faded friendship.
And then the C train, that least loved of New York City subway lines, rumbles sadly into the station, its faded tin-can siding a dreary reminder to passengers of an earlier subterranean era.
'American Idol' live a grim reminder of show's faded glory.
