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This child’s Valentine’s Day card was brutally honest

This Valentine’s Day card was shared by Redditor TheUnknown135 and is the very definition of ‘honest to a fault’.

Sent by a child to a soldier, presumably with the intention of putting a smile on their face, it, well, have a read for yourself …

Well, maybe it put a smile on their face anyway. Just not quite in the way they originally intended.

‘Dear soldier,

My name is Donovan. I want to give you a happy Valentines card because you’re probably never get to see your family again so I want to let you know that I care.

Sincerely

Donovan’

Here are some of the comments it prompted on Reddit.

‘Does no one look over these before they send them?!’ SillyNluv

‘Sometimes, but a lot of the time we just got a huge pile of them. The vast majority of them are benign, but there were definitely a few gems.’ Rishfee

‘I grew up in NYC and was a kid during 9/11. A couple weeks after, some elementary school in Texas sent us a bunch of cards and letters their students had made, which was a cute idea, but they didn’t look them over first. We were already a bunch of traumatized 8 year olds, and then we got these cards with drawings of people jumping out of burning towers and notes that said stuff like “I hope your family isn’t dead”‘ TheApiary

‘Donovan is glass half-empty kind of kid.’ rottzilla

‘Has a real future ahead of him writing and proofreading ransom letters.’ xenomorpheus

‘I once received a letter that said “Don’t die. Kill them.” And had a picture of a stick man holding the US flag standing over a bunch of sideways stickmen with X’s on their eyes and gravestones above their heads. Most motivating shit I’ve ever seen.’ Adam_is_Nutz

‘The soldier should write back: “Santa Claus isn’t real, Donovan!!”’ PowerUpTheBassCannon

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