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A legal or documented case · 1963 · Fan mail

Dionne Warwick and reciprocal fan mail

See 'Dionne Warwick's fan mail'. Kept as a case because it is the one documented example of a large parasocial arrangement that stayed reciprocal without being a parasocial relationship in the emotional sense.

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A reply is a cost, and paying it voluntarily is a different act from receiving attention. Warwick made a different object with the same name.

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