Write me one, and I'll tell you.
I think I did, it's called Safe Harbor from Ann Arbor.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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
That which does not kill you should RUN
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.