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The smile that wasn't hers: how they stole her heart by letter

La sonrisa que no era suya: cómo le robaron el corazón por carta

Fear that the person you think you love is only a collage of borrowed photos and handwriting can feel like a slow betrayal - and this story begins with a single photograph mailed in October that was not who Janet thought it was. A man named André Fernand appeared smiling outside an apartment, while the letters he supposedly sent were by someone called Stanley Stevens; how did two and a half years of correspondence and roughly twenty-six letters each create a convincing life out of stolen images and careful prose, and who was…

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