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I've written before about the types i've tended to write, when i was in season of reason to write them.

This is a semi-random list of the best love letters i've received.

The one written on my mirror in dry-erase marker;

The one left on my pillow, asking me to banish the word 'goodbye' from my language. (Some of you have noticed that i tend not to say goodbyes.);

the one written on my back in big letters, consisting of the word 'beautiful' and a single sentence poem;

The one on a 90 minute tape, recorded over two days

The one on a cake left in the fridge for me;

the one that was a 3 CD compilation... all right, so music and audio are a consistent theme here, there's a reason for that!

The one that was spelled out in pez;

The one that consisted of a journal entry, torn out and sent to me by the person who wrote it...

How about you? Ever get a love letter? Which was your favourite?? What kind do you think you would prefer? What's an ideal love letter, in your world?

I have not tended to keep a lot of the old letters (of those that were keepable). Do you? Do you keep them in a shoebox? Under your bed? In the closet?

It isn't that i don't value the past, it's that i tend to have enough trouble with the present. There are some i wish i'd kept.

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  • and a few from other girls. I keep them in a folder in a dresser drawer. My favorite was a poem written on hand drawn stationary with little penguins on it. It was one of my Christmas presents that year.
  • Kept them: no.

    They meant nothing.

    People are generally terrible writers, especially when it comes to emotional content. They balk. They end up cribing from outside sources, paraphrase colloquialisms, write the abstract and artificial in the place of any expression of true vulnerability. They are in love with the concept of love, not with any sort of real human understanding of the word. Juvenile. Flowery uninterrupted streams of babble. When it doesn't compare to declarative sentiment: "I went to b
    • "I went to bed at 10:30 last Tuesday. For no reason I thought of you and I could think about nothing else. I didn't fall asleep until 2 or so. So I came to work and I was tired. I went home and promised I'd get to bed earlier to make up for it. But then I sat there; all I could think about was what kept me up the night before. Now I'm tired. I need sleep. I wrote you this letter. I realized I needed to."

      Interesting tack. I was thinking of something like this last year. I should utilize such laconic detac
      • Laconic isn't the sole avenue. But the spirit is close: providing some analysis that isn't thematically cluttered. Often when it comes to This Stuff the message is lost, misinterpreted. You want to avoid the other person thinking "What the hell is this person saying?"

        It's a way of avoiding the dishonesty of hiding in someone else's emotion.
  • The only one I can remember, the only one that meant anything was from my ex. She wrote me a guide to who she was, where she came from, and how she worked in a little A7 notebook for my birthday one year. It meant a lot because I knew how hard it had been to write.
  • I think it was 16 candles or something where I got the idea from. But being the sensible 8 year old I got this great idea form a love note into a paper airplane and send it accross the classroom onto my sweethearts desk. I dont know how long I kept the note in my desk but on the last day of school I swore that I would deliver it. With the unpredictable winds in the classroom that day my flight was grounded, but being the sensible 8 year old that I was I decided to hand deliver it. So as we were getting out
  • That would have to be 'Q'.

    :-D
  • Never gotten a love letter. Unless you count an email he sent while visiting a friend that included some sort of equivalent of "wish you were here," but that was 5 years ago.

  • How about you? Ever get a love letter? Which was your favourite?? What kind do you think you would prefer? What's an ideal love letter, in your world?

    When I was in college, I was dating a young man who got rather creative once and wrote a love letter to me. It was unusual in that he wrote only one word per sheet of paper, and he stuck the sheets between the pages of a book I needed for an English class, one sheet per page. I carefully kept that letter neatly stacked - until I dropped it one afternoon in

  • ...keep everything the last girl had sent me. But I think when I got to a point when I realized I did not want to go that down that path again, the letters and such all went away. The only things that I have left from that relationship is a small silver cross that hangs from a lamp in my bedroom, and a small stuffed Tigger. And that's because I don't think I would ever throw a cross away, and I sure am never going to throw a Tigger away.

    But even being a horde monster that I am, when it comes to relationsh
  • i would like them to be hidden. secrets if you will. stashed away to be discovered at some point. they wouldn't have to be long or terribly deep... just simple expressions of emotion.

    i would also think something by the post... really... something that has a stamp on it, that traveled and showed up in my mailbox. i think that would be really remarkable.

    oh yeah... since you mentioned audio/music... yeah the whole notion of expression something through music... yeah that would be great too.
  • I have never knowingly thrown out any love letter, not even the ones from my psycho stalker ex-girlfriend.

    My fave of all time was included in a lunch brought to me when I was in college, with directions for how to assemble said lunch (since I lack rudimentary culinary skills).

    I haven't gotten enough of them to know what 'kind' i prefer. Somehow, any letter taht has 'I love you' in it (either explicit or between the lines) has always seemed to me to be the best letter in the whole world ever, but a no

    • In a perfect world, I'm going to get a delivery at work with a note inside saying, "Hey, darling, I thought I'd tell you that on the other side of this napkin is a nifty test showing that Riemann's hypothesis can now be called Sweetie's Theorem. Don't worry, I have a neater version being printed up, but I thought I'd send the original to the guy who made me laugh the most today. Neither of us is cooking dinner tonight..."

      My god... That is perfect. Of course, girls like that don't really exist. Oh well.

  • It was from my ex back when we had just barely met. During the long day while I was at work he wrote me a beautiful letter. Even after things fell apart, after he cheated more than once, after the divorce was final, I held onto it. It was a reminder of what we started with and why I was willing to change my dreams and future so completely. It was a way of clinging to what being utterly in love felt like.

    I don't have it anymore. He snuck it back when he found out I still had it (I'd shared it with our
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  • Every single scrap of every letter I've ever received lies carefully preserved, not close but not far and always close to where I sleep. The letters of unabashed love declarations, the break-up letters, the pictures...every last bit, none tossed out.

    When I touch something-- an artifact from some other time in my life-- I get images, feelings, memories...and to touch something long after the fact is always a learning experience to me. Often I'll see an old passed event in a new light, and sometimes that h
  • ....every single scrap. I am horribly sentimental, and I hung onto all the clumsy poetry, fervent declarations of lust, and even the simple day to day "I'm thinking of you" stuff. Even after I got married the first time, I kept all the written mementos from ex-boyfriends in a shoe box at the bottom a closet.

    Until I met Dan. Then all those scraps of paper that had been pleasant nostalgia were suddenly no longer important, at least not in comparison to having found my soulmate. I trashed all the letters and
  • but one of my ex's sent me a few.. and i keep those with almost all the other letters i've gotten.. I'm a packrat. Can't part with anything. For a while i wrote letters to my cousin (I later lived with him for about a year) and he wrote back, I kept the letters he sent, and the digital versions of the ones i wrote. I get about as many letters as i get e-mail, actually.. and I have in some shape or form virtually every e-mail i've every recieved... although I feel i should be keeping the past 4 years some

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