{"id":11809,"date":"2014-02-01T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2022-01-28T08:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:41:12","slug":"how-to-fold-a-valentine-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/how-to-fold-a-valentine-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Art of Folding Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Fold a Heart<\/h2>\n

In the time before texting and email and Facebook, we used to pass notes. Not the quick \u201cDo you like me? Check the box,\u201d sorts of notes, but long-form handwritten letters alternately squeeing and agonizing over our latest crushes, where we would sit at lunch, what SHE said about HER, what we were doing that night or movie we’d see that weekend — you know, the important topics. These weren\u2019t thoughts jotted down in 140 characters, \u00a0but scrawled on notebook paper and passed between classes or jammed into the vents on someone\u2019s locker.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes their contents weren’t so light. Those college-ruled pages gave us a place to reveal ourselves in ways we just couldn\u2019t out loud.\u00a0\u00a0One of my friends first told me she was Jewish in one of these notes, that she celebrated Hanukkah instead of Christmas and her 13th birthday party wouldn’t be just a big shindig but a rite of passage. \u00a0In junior high, even in what seems like a very diverse school, when you’re making new friends, sharing these sorts things about yourself seems like a big deal. Putting it on paper can be a whole lot more comfortable than a face-to-face conversation.<\/p>\n

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With these pages carrying our deepest thoughts, we weren\u2019t content \u00a0just to fold a sheet into quarters or eighths, there was origami involved, whether we knew that\u2019s what it was or not. I used to have shoeboxes filled with these little packets, now lost to time, or buried in storage at my mom\u2019s house. And while it\u2019s been years — double-digit years — since I folded a note, let alone wrote an actual letter, it\u2019s like riding a bike.\u00a0 Put a sheet of notebook paper in front of me and it comes back like it was yesterday.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick how-to on folding one of those hearts. \u00a0For Valentine’s Day this year, \u00a0write your sweetie a note and stick it in a pocket or a lunchbox. \u00a0It works best with 8.5 x 11 loose-leaf notebook paper, of course.<\/p>\n

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Update: 1\/29\/21 – Video added<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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