How to Write an Amazing Love Letter

Lessons from the most romantic love letters ever written

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Call it a bone-deep nostalgia, but I really wish the world would write more love letters.

There is fidelity in a love letter. It’s the reason why marriages, mortgages, births, and deaths are still signed on paper.

There is freedom in a love letter. You bare your unfettered soul with no audience — just your thoughts, a sheet of paper, your pen of choice, and an unsealed envelope. It’s a dress rehearsal. And you don’t have to get it right the first, second, or third time. Your trash basket awaits your failures.

There is a surrender in a love letter. And that demands a different kind of vulnerability. Words on paper have a permanence that a text or email can never capture. It’s an inextinguishable fire tied up in ribbons and hidden in secret boxes to be discovered and relived later.

Like any verbal muscle, you get better at writing love letters by reading and writing more love letters.

So grab your tissues, my fellow hopeless romantics. Let’s learn how to write an amazing love letter from some of the most heartfelt words ever put to paper.

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