My future wife lived in New York while I was in LA during the nine or so months of our courtship in the very early 90s. Long distance telephone calls were expensive, and stamps were, what like 25 cents I think? I used to send her mix tapes in the mail too, and she to me. I still have most of her letters and she kept mine. We paged through them about five years ago. Oh my word -- cringey. Not so much the feelings expressed; just the silly things you say when you're young. Also my penmanship was far better then.
