On Valentine's Day 1853, Harriet Jacobs wrote a letter to Amy Post, a fellow abolitionist and women's rights advocate who lived in Rochester, N.Y. Jacobs opened with the following words:
"I received your kind letter yesterday if silence is expressive of ones deep feeling then in this way I must ask you to receive the emotions of what my heart ↑and pen↓ cannot express hoping the time is not far distant when we may see each other but I must tell you what I am trying to accomplish"
I'm not sure of the status of Valentine's Day in 1853, but her words seem a more genuine expression than "U R Mine" on a, in Molly's words, candy heart that tastes like chalk.
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