AccordionGuy is cleaning house, and found letters he received from the women in his previous lives: “Most of these letters date from the years spanning 1987 to 1997, after which email took over and any handwritten was relegated to greeting cards. While email is quicker, the medium of "snail mail" allowed many of my exes and those who didn't quite fall under the category of "girlfriend" ("dalliance", perhaps?) to show off their creativity. Many of the letters and notes were written in multicoloured ink, on the backs of interesting posters or other unique scraps of paper or had drawings in pencils, coloured pencils, ink and pastel crayons. A few had photos pasted in; some were letters composed entirely out of phrases cut from magazines, and a number were embellished with stickers. Whenever a male geek gets annoyed at email written in HTML rather than plain text, I suspect that he never got letters like these.”
At the end he writes about moving in with the woman he is about to spend the rest of his life with, and I don't blame him for wanting to keep the past in the past. Earlier I linked to Frank, who criticized those who destroyed personal mementos such as letters from exes. That group of people would include me, as in first year of university I burned the cards and letters from my ex-girlfriend. It's almost too bad that Joey wrote about in some detail what the letters he received covered, since he could have made it into a pseudo-anonymous love letters project.