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In the "romantic era" (pick one really) people were paid to write very long and detailed and more-or-less made up love letters, either because the buyer could n
by simonsarris 14y ago
In the "romantic era" (pick one really) people were paid to write very long and detailed and more-or-less made up love letters, either because the buyer could not write or because they did not have such a way with words.
I would gander that romantic letters are probably the most ghost-written of any category of letter, for all periods in all of time.
- Mz 14y agoThat seems a little sad to me. I tend to value genuineness. I married a socially awkward introvert who wrote me incredibly bad poetry during our courtship. I found it endearing that such an intelligent well-read person (who scored higher than me on the verbal portion of the SAT) was willing to regularly look like an idiot to try to sincerely express his feelings for me.