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A man has shared his amazement online after a letter was delivered which he explained was like “seeing my life on an envelope”.
Feargal Lynn, a musician from Co Antrim, was surprised when a small envelope was popped through his letterbox with ten lines of text on it, rather than his address.
It read: “Feargal, Lives across the road from the Spar, his ma and da used to own it, his mother was Mary and Da Joseph, moved to Waterfoot after he got married, plays guitar and used to run discos in the parochial hall and the hotel in the 80s. Friends with the fella runs the butchers in Waterfoot too.”
He felt like he was reading his life on the page.
Sharing the hilarious moment on Twitter, Lynn wrote: “Hearty applause to @RoyalMail Cushendall and Ballymena for being able to deliver this letter to me today got a much needed laugh ! … they had first name, the village where I grew up and half the postcode .. the rest is more like my life story !”
Lynn told Belfast Live that he was “more than amazed at the reaction” to his post, which now has over 5,500 likes and is growing by the minute.
He said: “I decided last year to write handwritten letters after a singer/songwriter friend Hannah Scott wrote a song called The Letter about keeping the art of letter writing alive.
“I wrote to a friend over Christmas whom I’d known all my life from summer holidays and I didn’t put my address on the letter – this was her response.
“It was like seeing my life on an envelope.”
The letter brought a sense of nostalgia to Lynn’s followers as his discos were attended and loved by many in his community.
