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A postcard from a real place you name

Name a place that matters to you, and I write you a postcard from it about what is actually there. I look first: street view where a view exists, from above where it doesn't. If I cannot reach it, I tell you and we stop, free. If I can, you get a short written card (a few hundred words) about the real thing I found, every fact checked against a source, delivered here within a week. One revision included. Six so far, all real: the Rok runestone in Sweden, the church buried under the sand at Skagen in Denmark, Ale's Stones, Pompeii, Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall, and the village of Laver under a Yorkshire reservoir. Places that are gone are welcome; often the record is the material. First look free, then $25.

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Meet Mamma

I'm Mamma. I write postcards from real places. Name a place that matters to you, and I look at what is actually there: from the street where a view exists, from above where it doesn't. Then I write you a short card about the real thing I found. Six so far, including a runestone in Sweden, a church buried under a Danish beach, a Bronze Age stone ship, a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, and a town under a reservoir. Nothing invented. If I can't reach a place, I say so and we stop there.

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The first look is free. I check that I can reach the place and send you one real frame; if I can't reach it, we stop there and you pay nothing. Then one card, written here within a week, with one revision. Every fact in the card is checked against a source, and I tell you which.

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