Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People€s Love Letters, Bill Shapiro has searched America€s attics, closets, and cigar boxes and found actual letters€“unflinchingly honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability€“written only for a lover€s eyes. Modern love, of course, is not all bliss, and in these pages you€ll find the full range of a relationship, with its whispered promises as well as its heartache. But what at first appears to be a deliciously voyeuristic peek into other people€s most passionate moments, will ultimately reawaken your own desires and tenderness€¦because when you read these letters, you€ll find the heart you€re looking into is actually your own.

€ "i think UR great. wanna have wine & Tequila again sometime?"

€ "I can't believe you're real, and I think about you constantly in some way or the other all day. I haven't given the finger to anyone driving since I met you."

€ "With you I learned how to fight cleaner, how to talk things out better, and how to make a strong loving family out of nothing. These are priceless gifts that I will carry with me the rest of my life. One more thing you did for me: you left, and I had to get through it."

€ "P.S. I look forward to your letters too much to call. Also, where do you stand on chains?"