After all, bacon butties and tender letters aside, school isn't always a comfortable experience.
When she was racked with self-doubt at Wellesley and Yale, her father wrote her tough but tender letters telling her to buck up.
That's an extravagant claim, but the book abounds in striking details — Pound's childlike hunger for gifts of apple candy, friends' tender letters to and about him, and, especially, the hours poured into his unruly, unfinished "Cantos".
Some Aides in Limbo Soon after being sworn in last month, Gov. David A. Paterson asked all of Mr. Spitzer's former aides to tender letters of resignation, with the expectation that many, if not most, of those staffers would be reappointed under the new administration.
Drawing on Joplin's diaries, tender letters to her family and lovers of both sexes, and archive footage, film-maker Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue reveals Joplin as haunted by self-doubt, cursed by body dysmorphia, and driven to an early grave at 27 by demons that had found their home in her adolescence.
According to Richard Godbeer's eye-opening book, The Overflowing of Friendship, it was not unusual for platonic male friends to write tender letters to each other and to hold hands, cuddle, and even sleep in the same bed.
When I think of all the embraces that are not happening because of shame, and all the tender letters that aren't being written just because a man thinks it's not "manly" to express his feelings to a male friend, I get sad.
Development is continuing, and no doubt biologists and three-letter agencies have tendered letters of interest to the Dutch inventors.
And in all sincerity, he could compose the most tender condolence letter imaginable.
