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I have class tomorrow, but I am too was too wound-up to sleep - or maybe I was indulging my sentimentality. I just watched my favorite movie again tonight. It is "The Love Letter" (with Scott Campell & Jennifer Jason Leigh). It's such a beautiful story ... I never get tired of that movie. smile

In this movie, a man from modern times buys an old desk, and through the desk's secret compartment (and a very old post office), he is able to correspond with a woman from the 1800s. The movie is based on a short story - not sure who the author is, but I read the story many years ago in English class in (Junior High? Highschool?) Themes such as communicating across time, travelling through time, and immortality really intrigue me. So, this movie, is so fascinating to me. smile I'm going to have to look for fanfiction stories of the movie/short story - I am sure I could probably find some really good ones to read. ^_^

If I had to choose any other time period to be born in, one of my top choices would be the time period that this movie is set in. It was such an amazing time - all kinds of discoveries in science, technological developments - the latter half of the 1800s. Someone once told me that I have a face like a woman from the Victorian era. I went to this museum once - just a tiny little place, but there was a really cool area where you could try on clothes that were a replica of clothing from the 1800s. Mom took a picture of me in this 1800s-style dress, and when I looked at the picture, it made me shiver - I looked like I belong in those kind of clothes! eek Not that it's possible, or if it were that it would occur in this generation's lifetime - but if I could travel back in time, I would go to the 1800s - because, at least in physical appearance, I would fit right in with the look of that era.

I saw this guy on the bus once - he was pale and fair, with a cloud of angelic-looking curls around his face. He looked like he should have lived in the Renaissance era. He would have been painted as an angel! In college, I sat at a table with some friends, and we were discussing a girl who looked like she belonged in the 1960s - something about her pixie-ish face and pouty lips. She looked like she belonged in a mod-style mini dress and wearing Gogo boots. At that point, I turned to the guy who said that and asked him, "Tell me, what time do I look like I belong to?" He told me (and he was the first person to say this) that I looked like I belonged in the 1800s. Someone else told me that I look like an angel from an old painting (Renaissance?) She wanted to paint me as an angel. redface A too-flattering opinion there - I am not pretty enough to be painted as an angel! Well, I never was painted by her (frankly I'm relieved) - we had met on the bus occasionally and became casual friends. But, eventually, one or the other of us no longer went to the same school, and I haven't seen her in years.

So weird - to look like I belong to a different time! I am so glad that I was born in modern times, though. We have so many advantages: women can vote now, there' are more medications and medical treatments, more career options for women, women don't have to wear corsets anymore (have you ever seen pictures of what that did to the organs? - disgusting! xp ) As much as I romanticize the past, the present is actually much better in some ways, I (personally) think.