I’ve always remembered how, back in high school, one of my friends collected tea tags from a particular brand that printed poetry quotations on one side of the tag. Her now-husband, who was trying to win her over at the time, started buying that brand of tea and saving the tag after each cup. After having collected a great many, he put the collection in my friend’s locker one day to surprise her.
In college, the now-husband of another friend who was fond of calligraphy, learned how to do calligraphy for her and painstakingly wrote out a passage from the Song of Songs, further embellishing it in gold leaf and framing it for her.
