I sent a letter to a refugee and five years later he found me on Facebook
Five years ago I wrote someone I didn’t know a letter. It was a bit awkward. I didn’t know what to say. I described my family. I said I was studying law at university. I wrote that I thought what our government was doing to refugees was wrong. I included my address so the someone I was writing to could write back. I sent the letter to an address on Julian Burnside’s website and it presumably got bundled up with others and sent to Manus Island.
Five years later a “Mustafa” commented on a photo of a refugee rally I posted on Facebook, and asked whether I was the Sophie who had written him a letter. He posted a photo of an envelope with my handwriting on it, and my Canberra address.
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