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PS I love you! Hardly the most romantic way to write a love letter to your special person. But it is probably as far as some people go!

Have you seen the romantic comedy movie with Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank yet? The film, PS I Love You, shows a number of different ways romantic love letters can be used to show love. The very first way did not even feature a letter but was sent using a tape recorder and a special cake to celebrate her birthday.

Looking back over the centuries we know huge numbers of people have spent their time carefully crafting letters of love to their special partner. Have a look at my website LoveLettersCentral.com and see over 125 lovingly romantic letters written by famous and not so famous people. If you consider that letters only a few years would have needed to be written using a quill or feather dipped in ink to scratch the words on to parchment paper. Mistakes would have had to be carefully erased or starting the whole letter all over again. Nowadays we are more likely just to press the delete button on the keyboard. Yet huge numbers of those love letters of yesterday still exist today kept by the recipient possibly tied up in ribbon and carefully saved in a box or draw.

Which romantic gesture would you think would make the biggest impression on your loved one? The words PS I Love You, a box of chocolates and flowers or a full blown romantic love letter which would be likely treasured for many years long after the chocolates were eaten and the flowers dead? I know which I would prefer to receive.

We currently publish over 125 love letters some short, some long, in some cases we only publish extracts if the letters go on for several pages dealing with every day life issues. Each one of them could be taken by you and used in a number of different ways.

Did you know that one of my readers took a love letter straight off the site rewrote parts of it to include the color of her boyfriend's eyes, his warm cuddly and muscular arms etc and then wrote it out with one sentence on each of 10 sheets of paper. She then put them into separate envelopes with dates on them and handed them to her husband just as he was about to leave on a 10 day business trip with instructions to open each envelope only on the day marked on the outside. You can guess how much pleasure her husband had in getting that love letter each day and piecing it all together just before travelling back home to her.

Can you imagine his thoughts about her all the time away from her but with these strongly worded letters of passion being opened each day he was away. Do you think he would have been in more of a hurry to get home to her?

Can you think of any other way you can use a love letter? It need not be written down it could be taped (audio or video) but it should be expressing deep loving romantic feelings from you to someone else. I will set up a special prize for the person who sends me the most novel, the most interesting and/or the most romantic way of saying I love you.

There will be an extra special prize for the person who puts up the best romantic love letter on YouTube with a link back to our LoveLettersCentral.com website. When you have uploaded it write and give us the link so we can see it. Make sure you let your loved one know as well as all of his or her friends!

We obviously want to use the very best entries received on our website and by entering you show you are giving permission to do so.

Carol.

The concept of setting up this competition for the most romantic love letter sent in a unusual or novel way was inspired while watching the romantic comedy film PS I Love You. Carol Thornton who designed and pulled together a large collection of romantic love letters for the LoveLettersCentral.com website had been told by so many visitors "I wish I could get my boyfriend to do something really romantic for me" so thought why not pull together all the ideas into one place to help inspire them.