Love Letters

Well, no, not the edible kind; the handwritten ones sent out traditionally via snail mail.

Today marks a special day, sort of - it's been one year since my last note. In my lifetime, I'd given three written messages to three persons at three different points in my life.

I remember my first - a handpainted card, crayons I think, with 2 birds sitting on branch, one bigger than another, with a message "Can we be friends?". It was for Alvin - the guy who took the same schoolbus as me. I was 7.

My second was written in 1997. Strangely, despite Prince S meaning the world to me, all I remember is the lolly I'd put in the envelope.

My third was sent to Mr I-live-in-lala-land telling him what I wanted but didn't say some six years ago. Bizarre as it may sound, I was actually hoping that it would be lost in the mail. Murphy's Law debunked, it didn't. Belated as it was, it did me good because it ended the overrun episode.

Love letters...how many have you written and how many have you received?