your success rate of sending letters vs real life difference will be huge. it's so easy to dismiss a letter, toss it into the garbage. quickly write it off as a scam or "dont got time for this right now" w/e . almost as easy as dismissing a phone call as the same. in person, you are tangible and have their attention, and will be taken a hell of a lot more seriously.
I've been sponsored since I was 14, At first by asking for it, to the point i got people coming to me for it now. But it started by knocking on some doors and shaking some hands. No one ever paid attention when i simply called.
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