Write me one, and I'll tell you.
I think I did, it's called Safe Harbor from Ann Arbor.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Nov 17, 2005 9:21:31 am PST #4914 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 9:23:17 am PST #4915 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not creepy at all!
DavidS - Nov 17, 2005 9:42:26 am PST #4916 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Man, I've never gotten even a creepy or sucky love letter.
Yeah, but you have gotten a valentine.
What counts as a love letter? A first time declartion of love, or just regular schmoopy letters between separated lovers? I've got plenty of the latter.
Allyson - Nov 17, 2005 9:45:49 am PST #4917 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't think they're necessarily declarations of romantic love, like the essay I wrote about ita, or Tim, they can just be about how much you love someone. I'm not sure if either essay is schmoopy, but they're both about how much I love them, and how I came to love them.
I have written the romantic love letter, though. I think romantic love letters are less complex, for me, anyway.
Lee - Nov 17, 2005 9:45:52 am PST #4918 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Jilli!!!
no-pain-ma on your surgery as well!
Sue - Nov 17, 2005 9:46:29 am PST #4919 of 10006
hip deep in pie
OH! Happy Birthday Jilli!!!
lisah - Nov 17, 2005 9:48:40 am PST #4920 of 10006
Punishingly Intricate
I have all the letters my boyfriend in college wrote to me. As well as all the letters I wrote to him while we were together. He gave them all back to me when we broke up. Also a letter he wrote to me a few years ago apologizing for being such a dick when we were together (not written out of the blue in a creepy way. I had sent him a card when his dad died).
Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 9:49:33 am PST #4921 of 10006
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I always think of love letters as "Oh my dearest, how I miss you, etc., etc., etc."
Which I have never gotten, as I don't inspire feelings of "how I miss you." It has something to do with my misanthropy, I think.
Kathy A - Nov 17, 2005 10:04:39 am PST #4922 of 10006
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I did get a gut-punching "you're such a good friend" letter from my high school crush, though.
I got one of these from my first freshman-college-year crush. Have no clue what he's doing now.
A college roommate's brother developed a crush on me, and he was writing me initially chatty letters that escalated to the "I love you!" level, which is where I freaked out. That was strange enough for me (I'm the crusher, never the crushee), but even more weird was when I got a letter from him out of the blue five years later. (He worked for the post office, so he was able to track me down.) I never responded to that letter, either, and I never heard from him again.
Trudy Booth - Nov 17, 2005 10:08:00 am PST #4923 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I've gotten a lot of filthy e-mails and they were fun but I wouldn't call them Love Letters.
I did get a note from an ex-boyfriend once, but it was with a "christmas present." The gift was his snipped off tail (it was the eighties, we were sixteen) transformed into a tree ornament. I'm sure it seemed damn romantic to a rejected sixteen year old boy, but I was pretty much skeeved.