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A young man is crying and reading a letter. This is a detail from a copperplate print from around 1800, and can be found here: http://diglib.hab.de?grafik=graph-a1-1224

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A young man is crying and reading a letter. This is a detail from a copperplate print from around 1800, and can be found here: http://diglib.hab.de?grafik=graph-a1-1224
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Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 17:18:40 JST Daniel Bellingradt

This might have been the moment when the recent TikTok trend "crying while reading" started, around 1800 in Germany, when this young man started crying reading a letter and a befriended copperplate engraver was nearby and took advantage of the moment ... #histodons #bookstodon

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