Letter writing

I was just writing a friend a too-long email, given all she has on her plate. It included this random observation:

Not necessarily in the nostalgic way you hear older generations talk about it, but I miss writing and receiving letters. I was a big letter writer in high school, and through about half of college. And cliche though it is, email took that away. I had a friend in high school that I saw daily, but we still wrote each other letters. I don't know if I still have them, but I had many dozens of letters, likely 100+, from this. I think that maybe 5% of it was flirting, but mostly we just liked writing letters.

Nothing ever came of whatever was the flirting part, probably for the best. We both burned too brightly then, were too intense. (M: are you out there? Was any part of it flirting for you?)

And if any of you are thinking that I'm intense now, well, you have no idea. (Though several of you do.)

I wonder if blogging is public letter writing. Probably.