Dear Old Love: Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives & Ones That Got Away
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Book Overview
Call it wisdom of the heart. Or the broken heart. A knowing, funny gift for everyone who's ever been in love and then out of love: the newly single, the lonely-hearted, and even the happily re-paired. Dear Old Love is a collection of anonymous love notes to the ones who got away--or were left behind. They're the notes that ex-lovers have written to set the record straight. Or crooked. They're concise, witty, melancholy, revealing, sweet, sentimental, outrageous, withering, indignant, sometimes all at the same time. And like a pitch-perfect little poem, each entry paints a complete picture with just a handful of apt words: "A current snapshot of you erased 25 years of fantasizing about what could have been." Or: "I don't care that you miss my dog. When you cheated on me, you cheated on him, too." Or: "I say 'I love you' to people all the time now, to make that time I said it to you mean less." And for anyone wanting help to write their own love note, the book ends with clever fill-ins: "I wonder if we'd still be together if I had just admitted I was a ____, instead of saying you had a ____ so big it blocked out the _____." Try it on someone you loved.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0761156054
ISBN13:9780761156055
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:Workman Publishing
Length:174 Pages
Weight:0.48 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 4.0" x 6.1"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Crazy Love
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
You'll either laugh until you ache or ache until you laugh. That's because this book touches both the funny bone and the heart. How? Through a slipstream of truths. Small truths. Big truths. Truths you may not have recognized before, or perhaps you know all too well. Does this all sound a bit contradictory? No more contradictory than love itself. Face it. Love is crazy. Which is probably why it causes people to say and do such funny things. Many of which are hilariously captured here in Dear Old Love.
Im so miserable without you, its like youre still here
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Humanity at its finest. I saw much of myself and exes in this book, and if you miss your ex, dont text that jerk, just highlight the parts in this book that remind you of them and keep it around to remind yourself why they are exactly that!
Something you can relate to
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I read the web site long before the book came out, but bought the book anyway. The thing I love about it is that you can dip into it on any page and find something poignant that you can relate to it -- even if you can't relate to it. Things like "If I had known I was going to meet the woman you would leave me for when we stopped by your office, I would have put on makeup." You could do worse than read several hundred examples of what we did or didn't do for love...
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