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  • They say they'd have more energy for sex if their husbands would just write them more love-letters (any form of romance, love or affection would do), do more housework (at least don't leave that pile of dirty laundry there for me to pick up!)

    Christine Carter, PhD: Five Simple Sex Tips for Parents PhD Christine Carter 2011

  • They say they'd have more energy for sex if their husbands would just write them more love-letters (any form of romance, love or affection would do), do more housework (at least don't leave that pile of dirty laundry there for me to pick up!)

    Christine Carter, PhD: Five Simple Sex Tips for Parents PhD Christine Carter 2011

  • So, what we have is a crew of people who work with their hands sending love-letters of a very visceral sort to people whose work they access virtually; and the bloggers then turn around and blog about the boxes, creating viral publicity in a virtual medium about a movie which is all about being made by hand.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • When she was arrested by Pinkerton, love-letters signed "H" were found among her papers, but hand-writing experts decided that they were not Wilson's, which in view of his official position was just as well.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • So, what we have is a crew of people who work with their hands sending love-letters of a very visceral sort to people whose work they access virtually; and the bloggers then turn around and blog about the boxes, creating viral publicity in a virtual medium about a movie which is all about being made by hand.

    Quick Links: Coraline Boxes and the Antikythera Mechanism Reborn Heather McDougal 2008

  • They sound more like adoring teenage fan-mail, or even love-letters, than NYT opinion columns.

    Democrats Debate Tonight In Philly 2009

  • Her new work was Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796), a partly autobiographical novel in which she utilised both her own love-letters to Frend as well as her correspondence with Godwin.

    Mary Hays (1760-1824) 2008

  • “Any love-letters among them, Mrs. Pott?” said his lordship, lowering his tone.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • So even as I have meditated on the sure word of guidance God gave me several years ago and how I have often resented the trials that have come since, I know deep within my spirit that they were also love-letters from God delivered “in black-edged envelopes”, as Spurgeon says.

    Not Just Curiosities for a Museum Meg 2008

  • Even Wordsworth or Keats will be astonished to see such beautiful lines in the love-letters.

    My first love letter.Part I 2008

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