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"Have you read South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford&amp;#x27;s love letters (well, love emails) to his South American amor? My oh my, are they atrocious. Here&amp;#x27;s my favorite line: I saw these &amp;quot;male enhancement&amp;quot; pills in my local deli. Yep, the quacks who make these placebos somehow got the right to use Gustav Klimt&amp;#x27;s amazing painting The Kiss. His heirs must be seriously strapped for dough.&amp;quot;I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night&amp;#x27;s light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details ...&amp;quot; And we wouldn&amp;#x27;t want that! Anyway, I know it&amp;#x27;s the thought that counts when it comes to love letters. But if the Guv&amp;#x27;nor&amp;#x27;s purple prose is any indication, America could use some help expressing their most romantical feelings. I&amp;#x27;m no expert, but I do have a few pieces of advice for would-be Shakespeares: - DO send it by mail. After all, you can&amp;#x27;t spray perfume on an email. - DON&amp;#x27;T steal. I may be collecting quotes about love, but I&amp;#x27;ll never use them in a letter to my best girl. I don&amp;#x27;t want to hear how John Donne felt about his lover, I want to know how you feel about me. - DO be specific. No one wants to read &amp;quot;I love you because you&amp;#x27;re really cool and stuff.&amp;quot; Tell him about the little things you can&amp;#x27;t get enough of, like the way he scrunches up his nose before he sneezes or the look on his face when he hears good news. - DON&amp;#x27;T be afraid to get a little mushy. When writing to someone who loves you, it&amp;#x27;s hard to go overboard. As they say in the advertising game, give the people what they want. - DO expect him to write back. When my high school girlfriend and I were exchanging emails, we always signed off with some variation of &amp;quot;Write back or else!!!&amp;quot; That&amp;#x27;s because the only proper response to a love letter is another love letter--&amp;quot;Babe, loved your little mash note&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t gonna cut it. When is the last time you wrote or received a love letter? What&amp;#x27;s the best one you ever had the pleasure of reading? How about the worst? Do you have any tips for the rest of us? Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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