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Luckily I was born in a time when love-letter writing was still practiced via cursive (and on a few occasions indulging in my hobby of calligraphy), with the feel of real papyrus under my quill. I'm firmly convinced that the pace and tools-of-the-trade were a major factor in the romanticism of the letter-writing process - you actually had time to think, to consider alternative phrasing and such; now it seems everyone is texting "Hookup 2nite?" on their $500 smart phones with one hand while the other hand wipes.
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Being of the female persuasion and using the ladies' room on a regular basis, I can sadly attest to this. Oh, and some women don't even wash their hands!
My late wife and I were among the first successful online match-ups. We met in '92 on a writers' board, before the days of web browsers, chat rooms and online photos, so we only had each others' words to go by. It was attraction at first reading, although neither of us thought we'd actually get together since we lived 2000 miles apart.
She was a highly gifted writer with a long list of nationally published poems and had edited professional and medical journals for years. I was also a professional writer, a retired newspaper editor and at the time edited and published newsletters for a couple Fortune 500 companies and was just getting into script writing. Our emails were pages long and flew back and forth several times each day. After a month we compiled our emails and discovered that it took more than a ream of paper to print them. So yes, it was her writing that attracted me to her and my writing that attracted her to me. We were a perfect match on paper and in real life.
After her death I met several other women online. While I was and continue to be attracted to women with a gift for writing, it's only an attraction -- like when I see a beautiful woman in the grocery store. I look and admire, then continue on. Good writing is a sign of intelligence, and I'm attracted to intelligent women. I can't help it. Some guys like big boobs; I like a big brain.
My "new" wife (we've been together for 11 years), struggles with her writing. Spelling, grammar and punctuation are not her strong points. Perhaps I was attracted to her because I didn't want someone who compared to my late wife. Or maybe it was just because she was so damned cute. But she does have a quick wit (another sure sign of intelligence), and her writing reflects that.
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Yep! And we're all entitled to our preferences!
