Woman finds parents' old love letters and reduces the internet to tears
Romance isn't dead, folks.
This tweet about one woman's parents' long distance relationship will restore your faith in the power of love. Just trust us on this one.
Twitter user @sumacy posted photos of the letters her parents sent to one another when her mum was living in China and her dad was living in the U.S..
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"My parents were in a long distance relationship for a few years after my dad moved to the U.S. but they kept in touch through these letters," she wrote. "Do you hear me crying."
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Let's get a closeup of that enormous stack of letters.
Macy's tweet seems to have struck a chord among the romantics on Twitter — it gained 108K likes and been retweeted over 39K times.
The people of Twitter had questions, of course.
One person wanted to know if Macy's parents were still together. (They are, FYI!)
"Their 21st anniversary is this year!" Macy wrote on Twitter.
Others wanted to know how the pair found the energy to keep the relationship going.
Seemingly everyone was telling Macy's mum to dump her dad and find someone who lived closer to her. "Jokes on them haha," wrote Macy. Indeed!
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Macy told her parents about the attention her tweet had garnered, which prompted her mum to re-read the letter pictured:
"My mom pulled out the letter I took a picture of to read and now she's crying :')" wrote Macy.
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I'm not crying, I just have something in my eye.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
