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Passionate love-letter writing is an art well worth reviving. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19940208
Author:Due, Tananarive

    ``I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ... and I love you, too.'' 
    So the English poet Robert Browning wrote to fellow muse Elizabeth Barrett in 1845, triggering a tide of penned passion. The love letters persuaded his reluctant paramour to see him and, eventually, marry him. 
    Today, Browning would be lost. Imagine the scene: He would leave hesitant messages on Barrett's answering machine, while she stood there screening his calls with a smirk. And think: She would never have written the passion poem extraordinaire, ``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ...

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