Meaning of Dear John letter | Babel Free

Definitions

A letter from a wife or girlfriend to her husband or boyfriend, informing that the relationship is over, often because the writer has initiated a relationship with someone else.

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Examples

“Thirty years later in Vietnam, he was still carrying the Dear John letter he had received from his high-school sweetheart.”

“Dear John / Dear John / By the time you read⟳ these lines, I'll be gone / Life goes on / right or wrong / Now it's all been said and done, dear John / Seems we've sung love's last⟳ song, dear John / Seems we've sung love's last⟳ song, poor John / Seems we've sung love's last⟳ song, dear John”

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