Falling out of love is not easy.
It’s a process. Part of that
process may involve jettisoning reminders of the lover lost. One may, for example, need to burn some love
letters.
A nineteen-year-old woman in Lincoln, Nebraska recently fell out
of love.
Interestingly enough—even in this age of texting and video phone
calls—she had a collection of love letters.
Enter, stage left, Lincoln, Nebraska, first responders.
The Lincoln Police Department said police and firefighters
responded to an apartment complex in Lincoln just after 4:30 p.m. on a report
of flames on the third floor.
According to a police report, the broken-hearted young woman (mentioned
previously) used a butane torch to burn her ex’s love letters. While the last of the letters were smoldering
on the floor, she shuffled off to another room to take a nap. She awoke a short time later to the screeching
of her smoke detectors. Upon finding her
carpet on fire, she called for first responders.
Fortunately, no injuries were suffered, though an estimated $4,000.00
in damages resulted from the fire.
—Mitchell Hegman
Source: Huff Post, UPI
This ended better than I had anticipated. It was all set up to be tragic in the fatal sense. I am kind of sad that I myself got rid of things of this nature from my past and of that age. Nobody writes anything on paper anymore, maybe it's safer since email is pretty hard to set aflame.
ReplyDeleteTo me, there is nothing that compares to words written by the hand of the person who thought them. I think, in simple terms, we share the same thought.
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