Do you send or keep digital love letters?

There are few things more heartwarming than a carefully crafted love letter. And to be the reciever of such a letter? What bliss! But as more people say “I love you,” online, it seems fewer are writing and getting handwritten love letters.  Does a love letter have the same emotional weight when it’s in the form of a text message or an email? And if we treasure digital love notes, how can we preserve them? After all, love correspondence between your grandparents, or even your parents, can provide a lot of insight into how people lived, where they traveled or into major events like wars.

We’re thinking about doing a story about this, and we want to hear from you.

If you send or receive digital love notes, tell us if you keep them and how you preserve them. Do you print them out and file them in a trusty old shoebox? Do you have a special folder in your email inbox or on your cellphone?

Have you read love letters written by your grandparents or parents? What did you learn? Do you plan to share your love notes with your kids?

Or are we witnessing the death of the love letter altogether?

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original photo by L. Marie.