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Well, it’s been a month since the “Safer at Home,” order was given in LA, and a lot of us are still social distancing. WDC has always been an online community that has transcended boundaries, and I’m glad I can reach out to friends without social distancing worries.
I’d just like to say I appreciate all the kindness I’ve seen in the past month. I know it’s a hard time, but a small smile goes a long way. ((hugs)) 
How can we connect with others while social distancing? When we can’t hug, it’s about the written word. It’s about gestures. It’s about our emojis. So, this month I thought I’d look at ways to keep the romance alive in such a restrictive environment.
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One of the best ways to express our love and affection when challenged with (social) distance is with a letter. You can snail mail it, or send an email. One famous love letter writer is Napoleon. He continued to write love letters to Josephine even after he divorced her.
--- “My happiness is to be near you…"
Frieda Kahlo wrote letters to her husband, Diego Rivera for over 27 years with an intensity that was raw and fierce.
--- “Your fingers touch my blood.”
Beethoven often wrote to his unidentified “immortal beloved.” Historians believed that might have been “Antonie Brentano,” a diplomat’s daughter.
---"Oh continue to love me – never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever Mine. Ever ours.”
LOVE LOCKS
In various International cities from Seoul, South Korea, to Paris, Budapest, and Prague a padlock locked to a bridge, gate, or even a fence expresses deep love. Here in America, about all a padlock does is secure our gym lockers. In Europe and Korea, padlocks have a different reputation. Known as “love” locks, they express love in a unique way.
Young lovers will take a padlock and write their names on it. Once they lock it on a gate or a fence, they take the key and throw it away. This is a public declaration that they promise to love each other forever. In a time of social distancing, this is a heartfelt way to express emotions. (Though I must admit, too many padlocks tend to be a bit unsightly.)
EMOJIS
In today's new world technology one way we express love is to send Emojis through text, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, other social media platforms. This isn’t Napoleon’s time anymore. Emojis say it with pictures instead of words. And what kind of emoji would Josephine send Napoleon? An heart with an arrow through it?
What are some of your favorite emojis you use to express your romantic feelings? Let me know what emojis you think Napoleon would send Josephine or what emojis Frieda would send Diego?
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She ripped his love letters into shreds because he brought carrots for her horse.
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