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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>“Dear Old Love” is short notes to people we’ve loved (or at least liked). Requited or unrequited. 

The ex-husband in Grace Paley’s short story “Wants” says to his ex-wife, “I attribute the dissolution of our marriage to the fact that you never invited the Bertrams to dinner.”  If you’re bitter, that’s the way to express it here.

Please email pithy, specific “Dear Old Love” notes to dearoldlove(at)gmail.com. Posted submissions will be anonymous, and all submissions will be held in confidence. I won’t sell or give away your email. If privacy is a concern, use an account with a pseudonym.  

By emailing me, you’re granting a permanent, royalty-free license to edit and use your “Dear Old Love” note in any way. Your note will remain anonymous. Dear Old Love will be published in book form by Workman in the fall of ‘09. My name is Andy Selsberg. Thanks. Enjoy.</description><title>Dear Old Love</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @dearoldlove)</generator><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>May We Reunite at Thirty</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Now that the Yankees have won another World Series, I wonder if you’ve changed your password to reflect the 27 championships.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236591062</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236591062</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:49:13 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Necessary Silence</title><description>&lt;p&gt;This silence, while necessary, is heartbreaking.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236575115</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236575115</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>A Kiss Is Just a Miss</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I don’t know if you kissed me because you were finally able to after all that time, or because you were just missing her.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236574664</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236574664</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:30:26 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Our Joke</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I hope we will look back and just laugh about it. “Remember the time we broke up and didn’t talk for three years? How funny!”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236559606</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236559606</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:12:11 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Just Said No</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I always knew, deep down, that we weren’t going to get married. I wish you had said no that sunny day in March, even though it was one of the happiest days of my life.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236558059</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/236558059</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:10:14 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Fifth's a Charm</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I tried to get over you once. I tried again. And again. And again.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235958909</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235958909</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:48:46 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Over the Coals</title><description>&lt;p&gt;But at least you taught me how to be barefoot whenever I wanted. That’s something, right?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235950334</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235950334</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:32:48 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>You Do?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I miss waking up every morning to the scent of your sweat and Old Spice.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235941493</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235941493</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:17:47 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>By the Scores</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You once screwed me in the music library, up against shelves full of epic opera scores. Now every day when I go to work there, I glance at the spot where my forehead pushed the books out of place. They’re still messed up. (So am I).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235932538</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235932538</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:02:20 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Blame Gamed</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I’m glad you met someone; now I can stop blaming myself for your loneliness.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235653020</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235653020</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:04:21 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Can't You Be Both?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I would stop being a trashy whore and just be your girl if you asked.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235652137</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235652137</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:03:22 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Stuck </title><description>&lt;p&gt;Without you, I don’t know how to be the person who deserves to be with you.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235648869</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235648869</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:59:51 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Not a Dancing Pigeon?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You both wrote songs about me. In yours I was a pigeon. In his I am a dancer.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235648571</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235648571</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:59:30 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Necking</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Okay how about this: Can I just come over and kiss your neck for ten minutes? Just your neck. Just ten minutes.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235125329</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235125329</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:50:34 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Another Case of the "Yet You's"</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You said I was all you ever wanted, yet you still left and kept looking.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235075966</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/235075966</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:41:50 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Duct Type</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You came up with clever make-shift solutions for every home-repair, but when it was our relationship that needed mending you were suddenly out of ideas.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234952929</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234952929</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:47:50 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Is It a Choice?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I want to love someone else already. But I keep thinking, what if you love me, too, after all?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234943554</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234943554</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:32:49 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>One Basket</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You said you hated that I was so apathetic. Little do you know I could hardly breathe around you, you made me so nervous that I always made excuses to leave. I’m full of emotion and passion. It was all for you.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234934388</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234934388</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:17:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Butt-In</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I never thought much of my butt until you came along and said I had a great one. Now, I just wish you were still around to appreciate the perfect jeans I worked so hard to find.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234924942</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234924942</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:02:09 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Dangerous Liasions</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Are you playing a game with me? Are you trying to wear down my commitment to another just to see if you can? Am I doing that to you?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234540746</link><guid>http://dearoldlove.tumblr.com/post/234540746</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:14:29 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
