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I Still Love You!
FOUND by Marta Ferreira
in Lisbon, Portugal
I found this bookmark in a second-hand book I bought in a small shop. I have no idea who Lucie is, or who she was addressing - but it in its simplicity, isn't it so romantic?
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Perfect. It's just perfect.
as in lucie-fer? That weird thing at the end if the "e" just reminded me of the devil's tail....that's all I'm sayin'....
@ BLUE- Definitely, 'LUCIEFER'. How suiting for today...
Red paper, heart, could be a cupid's tail, and after 32 years, look at how is still giving the Valentines' Day notes!!!
No...I'm kidding!! I don't have a clue what this note is for?? But it is perfect for today's occasion!
I think lucie started attaching hearts to her name when when she first fell in love, all those years ago, now it's like second-nature.
Happy valentine's day, my loves. Now, who's go the candy??
GOT...
Lucie with an ie...not the common spelling.
I wonder if they are still together and how many valentines days this year makes it for them.
Don't believe a word of it when people tell you it goes down hill. In my personal expereince, it only gets better!
Sorry...supposed to be *look at *who* not *how*..
GGGRRR!!!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY YA'LL!!!
This is soooo sweeeet.
As in Syrupy.
As in ipecac.
Retch.
I'm definitely not marriage material.
Love makes the world go 'round!! I love you Heidi!!! For the last four years you've made my world go 'round. :)
After 6 years, I still resent you!
The Lisandra find is way more romantic than this one. IMO. Of course that's probably just lust, whereas this is enduring, abiding LOVE.
Hmm. So maybe Lisandra's is a passionate find, and this one's romantic?
I'll never understand this shit.
Sounds like "Fiddler on the Roof"--"After 29 years, you want to know if I love you? I'm *here*!"
"I still love you"--seems to be a note of surprise here, somewhere.
After 24 years, our love is stronger than ever. Now THAT's romantic! (and in my case, true.)
At last! A non-math spam question!
after more than 32 years,
I LOVE LUCY too.
I bet this is a Post-It Note, from a pack of Valentine-red Post-Its that Lucie (with a heart attached) bought, thinking, "Oh cool! I'll write Valentines!" but after writing about 5 or 6 of them the novelty wore wore off & now she's stuck with the rest of the pack.
Not really good for anything now but warnings, threats, and suicide notes...
(lars is cool !:D))
Happy Valentines Day,everyone !
What a cute find. Luvin' the red post-it and the heart is no devils' tail. It may have been given on an anniversary. It was left in a book. But it's still charming to me.
I like the idea of threats and suicide notes on red post-its.
Roses are dead,
Violets are too;
I've asphiyxiated myself
In the garage because of you.
Happy ****ing Valentines Day.
Lucy daughter of the devil! (youtube it)
lovely find- i am personally headed for the special hell that people go to when they are given wonderful valentines and have totally spaced on doing anything for the holiday... uh, where can i get some red post-its?
Aww, how adorable. I hope they're still happily in love. Happy Valentines Day! (Even though I'm pretending this holiday doesn't exist.)
I know a Lucie (of French Canadian extraction) who really, really deserved a 32 year long love affair except that she didn't get one because her husband of somewhere around half that many years decided to come out of the closet. He'd known he was gay all along. Talk about shattered dreams.
Happy Valentines Day, anyway, Lucie!
--- now, about this Find... who is writing English language post-it notes in Portugal, and why???
Awww...sweet Find.
Happy Valentine's Day, friends!
I think Lucie wrote it to her 32 yr old son who still lives at home, in the basement, and contributes nothing to the household and has driven off Lucie's 2nd and 3rd husbands (and the rest of the family).
Sweet, but I hate valentines day. And not because I'm alone, I actually have a wonderful significant other. I just think that $60 is the largest waste on flowers that die in a few days when that money could go to something practical.
Happy St. Valentine day massacre!
Awwww this is sweet. I <3 it!
ELEE I'm with you. I'm a helpless romantic at heart, and I love any excuse to do something mushy sweet for my amore, but a long time ago we vowed that on valentines day we would not spend any money and do other things for each other instead. It's so much more enjoyable that way.
aaaahhh!!
Happy Valentine's Day (you know who you are!!!)
xxxxxxxxx
)*j*(
The American Apparel girls are high and passed out in their ballet costumes again. Sluts.
happy valentine's day to all!
Here is something for all the anti-valentine's day people,...
http://www.happytreefriends.com/watch_episodes
I promise you'll enjoy it more than this find :)
i wish i had that sort of love. I think Lucie knows how lucky she is.
26 yrs, and i struggle to find passion or peace on a daily basis.
OH, yuck. I'm not normally cynical about love or Valentine's Day (anything that offers 1/2 price chocolate the day after is a plus, in my book), but for some reason, when I saw this.... just... yuck.
I imagine her giving it to someone who really doesn't give a rat's ass. He gets it, rolls his eyes, and grabs a beer from the fridge.
Humph.
I've said this before, so please forgive me for repeating myself. I think that finds like this bring out people's true feelings.
Those who are cynical about love will find Lucie to be clingy, needy and co-dependent.
Those who are in love will read this as Lucie having found the true love of her life, and as being happy.
(Curious, i'm trying to start a movement to celebrate all those holidays a day or two after, to cash in on the 1/2 price sales. Here's to late V-day gifts, tardy Easter egg hunts, and delayed Xmases.)
Wow, I never expected this kind of find today! So excited!
Finder has been googled. Feast your eyes upon this. Trust me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlYWjdzsKuE&
Awww that's sweet
I have a friend who spells her name Lucie. She is getting married this summer. May you be as much in love with him after 32 years are you are today!
The only reason that Valentines Day is dumb is because you should tell people you love them every day, not just once a year. I think this note is truly romantic. I hope someday I am still in love with someone after 30 years of marriage.
After 32 years of cheating, abusive behavior and alcohol. I cant believe I stil love you.
Lucy
ps... you are going to H E double hockey sticks cause I am the great great grand daughter of Lucipher and he is not happy with you... at all.
Never been much of a romantic myself. And I've become somewhat jaded and cynical with age. So Valentine's Day doesn't mean squat to me. But I respect the idea that others have found love and are able to embrace that concept.
My marriage motto: first time for love, second time a hairdresser.
Clover: Your secret is safe with me. I'm in seclusion while I'm housesitting way, way out in the boonies for some friends. It's been brutally cold and very snowy so it makes getting back to civilization a challenge. So far it's worked well as a refuge from some things I'm avoiding at home.
hmm, mona i think you are on too something... My girlfriend and I have been doing something similar, except that we wait a week or two. Its fun, but I think thats mostly because we just end up celebrating twice: first on the day of the holiday, then two weeks later.
I can only hope that the author of this found sincerely is in love and that happiness is not out of reach for everyone.
This is beautiful! I love it!
I was married young (19) and nearly 6 years later (25) its still perfect.
I love you Michael!
I'm glad I married young, I'll only be 51 when I write that note to my husband.
Rax, i'm glad to hear that you're finally in love. Don't lose it.
I hope happiness is not out of reach for everyone, either.
The tone is like "I still love you - even though you don't deserve it"
Ugh. Math spam. Please let me get the frosting questions. At least the USA-centric questions were really easy.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely LOVE this!!!!
I think I have finally found the one I will love 32 years from now :)
OOO!! And if you havent checked out postsecrets this week SOOOOOOO good!! The first one isnt my secret but it is my secret..
I have always been single for Valentine's Day, so finds like this make me both bitter and hopeful. Damn it I want that... But maybe someday.
Love is an emotional excuse for the mentally weak to use others. Lucie is a half-wit housewife married to a quarter-wit working man. "I love you because you make it so I don't have to think." It makes me sick.
Happy Saint Hallmark's Day, everyone. Next year, just send me your money and I'll happily pre-print some generic sappy bullshit on pink paper for you.
@ Moments- You'll have it someday, too!! There's ALWAYS someone out there for everyone...too many people for that not to happen, right??
Hubby and I have been married for 21 years this August, and we have an adorable, 19 year old son.
Sammy, will you be my VALENTINE??? I'm still in-love with you after all these fantastic and amazing years of our lives!!!
BTW, I'm 38 and my hubby is 53....go figure??!!!!
I hope no body has to be alone on this Day....especially. :o(
HUGS to all...
Oh dear Kira. Why can't love be a supporting frame work for two people's mutual benefit and happiness? I feel that, and I ended a three year relationship les than a week ago.
Holly 20 yrs for me and the hubby this august. It sounds like we have a lot in common.
Lucie is the French spelling and is much more elegant, I feel.
I was going to buy myself a single red rose (Wellington doesn't believe in buying cut flowers) but at the equivalent of $8 per, for a single full-blown rose...I don't think so. Especially having seen the bag of loose petals sitting next to the roses in the bouquets.
Money, there are enormous numbers of English-speaking people in Portugal, particularly on the Algarve and Lagos. And used book stores full of interesting finds used as bookmarks.
I don't believe it! Cynics about love make me sick! I think Valentine's Day is a shitttt day. This year, I am single - the first Valentine's Day I've spent alone for a long time. But I've swapped cards with my friends with crappy rhymes we made up, and I'm happy on Valentine's Day. I never thought it would happen.
I don't think there are any assumptions to make about this note. A happily married couple. Over past years of flowers wilted too quickly, and chocolates scoffed by the kids, they have decided to keep it simple. And it's beautiful because of that.
Oh, and by the way, it isn't an amazing coincedence that we have a Valentines day note on Valentines day. The makers of this website sift through the Found and choose one appropriate. Thank you Found!!!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAYS!!!!
Message from beyond the grave. Lucy whated Ricky Ricardo she still loves him.
Heh.
My ex broke up with me on Valentine's Day last year because he had gone out and purchased a bunch of swag for another girl and then realized he couldn't very well give it to her with me still in the picture.
Didn't really bother me though (well, breaking up/cheating did, but not the choice of days) because my parents have been together for 35 blissful years and never once celebrated Valentine's Day. It’s just another day. He might just as well have broken up with me on Black Friday or Fastnacht.
That being said… If anyone on here lives in the greater Lehigh Valley Area, the Lehigh Valley Network of Young Professionals are having an Anti-Valentine’s Day Dine-Out tomorrow night which should be fun :-P
How nice. I really like this find, but I'm a bit envious. I'll (probably) never get to write that letter (I married an older man) though I've wanted to strangle him this week rather than love him. I don't like the commercialism of Valentine's Day (ha - started to abbreviate that VD and then saw it an thought better!). Before my husband I had never had a significant other before on this day. My husband buys gifts (don't think I got one this year, though), but I'd much prefer smaller happies throughout the year (a rose because it's Thursday, fresh picked flowers for the garden, etc.).
Effie, love is a fleeting emotion. It is most often measured by how long it lasts (hence the 32 years on this found, and the 3 years in your case). It is not concrete. The benefits of love certainly do not outweigh the consequences. Your 3 year relationship is over now, what do you have to show for it? What did it cost?
You still love me? What? Like it's hard?
@spider in the web:
Are you new? Our pal, Turbo, ONLY makes comments that are sarcastic and cynical. That's one thing we can count on and why we love Turbo in the Thunderdome.
Happy VD T in T.
"Damaged Heart" dec 12, 2005. is where clicking on my homepage took me just now.
is what i got one year. the panties formed the rose. Which might have been halfway ok. If he hadn't accidentally find it, dropped on the ground outside his car. That's what i go that year.
Terrie, yes, its incredibly hard, sometimes, to love someone. Kira, i don't want to believe you, but sometimes i do. Hoping it could be any different is much more difficult than realizing it isn't, and won't ever be.
Awww...that is sweet.
My parents split up after 32 years of marriage. I hope these two have better luck. :)
Wow, lace panties, that is sincerely messed up... Even though I might not get her anything for Valentines (besides flowers, or dark chocolate of course) I can not feasibly imagine how high or intoxicated I would have to be to do something with that little class... My heart goes out to you.
Lace Panties: I agree with Rax.
One year I got a card which read "All I want for Valentine's Day is You" and then on the inside: "Preferably horizontal, naked, and in my bed."
He included a $10 bill :-P That pretty much summed up THAT relationship!
thanks, Rax. in his defense, i guess he thougth it would be funny. I don't think that cuts it tho.
Withnail... thanks
Husband and I mutually agreed this would be a low key VD, and just get dinner and a movie. Flowers die and they are so dang expensive anyhoo, we're dieting so chocolate is out, and neither one of us are big jewelry freaks, so this works for us. Besides, I agree whith whoever said the little surprises all year long are much better.
I do agree that this is St. Hallmark's Day-pity.
mona lisa, I was redirected to November 8, 2005, after I posted earlier - I'm disappointed that the irony gods aren't favoring me today. lace panties, I'm sorry. I think cards are so darned expensive too, *completely* unlike my scrapbooking hobby, so I made my husband a little scrapbook this year about loving him - mostly documenting him with our girls for the past couple of years. He's not going to appreciate it nearly as much as I do.
To Terrie, wherever you are...
It took me much longer than it should have to realize that "Totally Unique-Ville" is a reference to the raging debate about whether or not it's proper to qualify "unique."
Now, would you happen to remember which Find that uproar pertained to? I know it was my mention of Cormac McCarthy that sparked the whole thing.
Oh hey, Flargy, i didn't realize it was you that turned me on to Cormac McCarthy. I've read two of his books, and love them. Thank you for that. Have you read Blindness? I forget the author. Wonderful book. The technique reminds me a lot of Cormac's.
Some people give gifts with too much expectation. Others give gifts with the wrong person in mind (themselves instead of the recipient.)
This Find is from the heart.
Flargy,
I made an honest effort to actually remember which one it was, but couldn't, so I looked it up. Whiteassnow--July 31, 2007. That's where all the hyphens came from too. It keeps me from taking myself too seriously.
@8th grade teacher
I LOVE that idea! Can I steal it?
My husband got a corny little limerick I wrote for him this morning and our girls and I are making fondue for dinner tonight. Romantic huh? ;o)
this comment made me LOL
decibel in in a state of annoyance said:
you people are so effing annoying. This is a comments feed, not a message board thread, or forum to gripe in.
besides, you all know the saying:
Internet fights... Even if you win, you're still retarded.
(July 31, 2007 03:26 PM)
I love you, too! Happy Valentine's Day!
@ Turbo- Thanks for the video! Although, watching it makes me think she spilled coffee on the pants she was planning to wear with that jacket on the way out of her dressing room. I mean seriously... And the bow worries me a little.
Love can not be measured by years together. Not all unhappy, broken marriages actually break up. My in-laws just had their 37th anniversary, and their relationship has been hanging by a thread for 20 years. They basically hate each other, but stay together for some reason. Lucie should let her mate know that she *still* loves him.
Then what is the measure of love?
Thanks, t-i-s-v.
By the way, I'm glad you added the hyphens. Before that, I always read your name as though it was pronounced "Terrie's Ovary," and that's just uncomfortable.
Oh, and what do you search by when you don't remember the title or subject matter of the Find?
Valentine's Day is so under-rated. I have no turkey to stuff, no mandatory green wardrobe, no eggs to dye, no tree to put up...just chocolate, roses and sex!
Yay! I love this day!
I don't believe it! Cynics about love make me sick! I think Valentine's Day is a shitttt day. This year, I am single - the first Valentine's Day I've spent alone for a long time. But I've swapped cards with my friends with crappy rhymes we made up, and I'm happy on Valentine's Day. I never thought it would happen.
I don't think there are any assumptions to make about this note. A happily married couple. Over past years of flowers wilted too quickly, and chocolates scoffed by the kids, they have decided to keep it simple. And it's beautiful because of that.
Oh, and by the way, it isn't an amazing coincedence that we have a Valentines day note on Valentines day. The makers of this website sift through the Found and choose one appropriate. Thank you Found!!!
I agree with Tess. V-day is one of the best "holidays". Me and my boyfriend go out alone WITHOUT kids, no in-laws, etc. I love roses even if they do die after a couple of weeks.
Flargy, I googled:
"Cormac McCarthy foundmagazine"
Otherwise, I would have been hitting that 'back' arrow for ages.
This may be a comments section, but most people relate what they see with their real lives and they *will* make comments as such.
Get over it.
Orinoco Womble,
I'm glad of that ... I'd hate to think that folks in Portugal thought the English language sounded as smoothly romantic as we English speakers think French sounds.
I love this note and even more so because I'm a Lucie with an ie! You're right that it's not a common spelling but I don't meet very many Lucys either — well, there are tons at the dog parks but they're the four-legged variety.
I'm a not-in-love-Lucie. though. I hope one day I have someone I love more after every single year and I hope he will love me like that too.
Happy Saint Valentine's Day! xoxoxo
Agent Ling Hi, thank you for your compliment. I do enjoy a bit of sarcasm. Except Flargy's.
Speaking of that, last year the only thing I got for Valentine's Day was a used copy of "Real Genius" and a case of the clap.
I didn't see my post from earlier, either it was deleted or lost when I was redirected. Mona, I just finished reading "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men" Real page turners. I've been married 20 years this month. We met on an elevator.
thanks for the vid, Turbo!
'twas painful to listen to, but I, unlike Rebel, like her outfit!
This looks very much like my grandmother's handwriting. She wrote using the Palmer method, which was taught in the 1920s and '30s, and she was very proud of this fact. Thanks, FOUND, for reminding me of her on this day. :) I miss her.
Yeah, Turbo. I really care what you think. It really means a lot to me.
Pepper, I read The Road a few months ago - wow. I really liked "Suttree" too, but I seem to be relatively alone in that opinion. That's right, I said RELATIVELY alone. I qualified the shit out of "alone," and I'm not afraid to do it again.
***
I wish I knew how it feels to love one person for that long.
I wish I knew how it feels to be loved by one person for that long.
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Flargy, read Blood Meridian?
Happy Valentine's Day to all the good people at FOUND!
We exchanged knives this year. Really nice knives.
@James - You probably know this already, but Ridley Scott is directing a movie adaptation of Blood Meridian for release in 2009.
Just too sweet. I love it! My husband and I met 10 years ago February 15th. That has always been our personal Valentines day. Love does get better as the years go by.
Boy in America, your post makes me feel very sad for you. Maybe there is a higher purpose to your life than just loving one person? Maybe when you start to seek outside of your own personal desires you can begin to feel the love that you crave just by giving of yourself. Love is unpredictable, life is not. We are born, we live, we die. How you choose to live that life is up to you. Love without expectations is the deepest love we can offer.
James, I haven't read it. Seems like you might be recommending it...yes? I have read All the Pretty Horses, and maybe one other in that trilogy.
@Desperate Cynic:
Ahhh...nothing says "I love you" like cutlery. Really nice cutlery.
Wow James, thanks for recomending that "Blood Meridian" to me. I've not read it yet.
Do you know this girl?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlYWjdzsKuE&
Hey Turbo, got your info about STP, thanks left you a message a couple of finds back.
Coincidentally, that is exactly how long my husband and I have been together. I had to actually subtract 1976 from 2008 to make sure it really has been that long. I printed this note and gave it to him for his valentine today. (No, my real name isn't Lucie. Darn.) He, of course, did more for me -- gave me chocolates and a bottle of Frangelica, which is my favorite treat. My gift may have been simple and inexpensive, but nothing beats a Found coincidence for the sheer joy it brings!
Then we went to see the high school play, "Zombie Prom" tonight.
@Formerly Alice: The Palmer Method was still being taught in Midwestern schools in the 1970's. It may be even yet. Why get off a winner?
Of course my writing was never anything like the samples we were set to copy. I am much more comfortable with the European system which teaches children that beautiful, rounded cursive from day one. I used to catch merry hell in math class for crossing my 7's and putting tails on my 9's. They really hated anything that deviated from their norm.
@Baby Basil:
I developed the habit of crossing my sevens when we lived in Germany for a few years. It drives everyone here crazy but I can't seem to break the habit. I like the way they look.
A day late.
Kira -
Love isn't measured in a concrete manner like in liters or kilograms, but just because it is intangible doesn't mean it's nonexistant. Pain can't be measured either, or itchiness, or happiness, in any kind of conventional, reliable way - but could I logically prove to you that headaches, mosquito bites, and your happiest memories don't exist through that argument?
To me, love isn't a feeling, it's a promise; it is a concern for and a devotion to the happiness, personal growth, and physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of another.
This kind of devotion can be applied to relationships with parents, children, friends, pets, romantic partners, siblings, extended family, even strangers. Of course it can't be measured, but it certainly isn't fleeting - it's an ACT, not an emotion. Even if I FEEL furious at my sister, for example, I'd still DO nearly anything to make sure she's happy and well.
I hope you do share this connection with people, even if you don't call it love. For me, it's the most important thing in my life.
Becca,
THANK YOU. It's what I meant, but didn't have the words to say.
Anyone who doesn't believe in love doesn't know what the word means. It's not a fluffy feeling; it's a decision. It doesn't make it all better, but it makes it all worth it.
Nicolas Cage's character in Moonstruck said it best: "The past and the future are a joke to me now. I see that they're nothing, I see they ain't here. The fairytales are bullshit! Love don't make things nice, it ruins everything. We are put on this earth to love the wrong people and break our hearts. I ain't perfect...stars are perfect. Snowflakes are perfect."
I ain't perfect either, but I get it.
"Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
Vida, nada me debes! Vida, estamos en paz!"
--Amado Nervo
(I loved, and was loved, the sun caressed my face.
Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we're at peace with each other!)
How ironic, MONA!!! We might have alot more in common!
Too bad she just "still" loves him and doesn't love him "more than ever"...
Very nice nonetheless and I like how she makes the heart straight out of her name.
Spam Q: Do you see a doctor or a dentist for a toothache?
What if I answer "Yes"
O.K. the answer is: I type my comment over....
My beautiful daughter sent me this website because i am a Lucie with an ie, and her father & I celebrated our 32nd anniversary last October! May you all find true love, no matter for how many years. Thank you dear Jennie for a lovely Valentine treasure.
Love, Mermslie
Love is an action.
Yeah, love is an option, and love is an action, but if there's no reciprocity, or of the recipient is taking that love, chewing it up, spitting or shitting it out and stomping on it, well... Love kinda hurts.
Hearts and flowers, kitties, faeries and ponies for everyone.
Baby basil, you are amazing.
I think I love you for that (and it isn't even valentine's day any more).
While we're quoting -- I wanted to put the words of Jacques Brel's Chanson des Vieux Amants on here, but it would have taken up too much room.
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/j/jacquesbrel459
x
Dayum, Jonathan. I don't read Portuguese. If only there were someone here who knew how to translate foreign song lyrics into English.
After forty-two and a half years, I still love you, I still dream of you, I still wish things could have been different. If you're reading this, won't you drop me a line? I miss you so much. I just want to be friends. I wish for you the very best and hold you in my prayers. I'll always love you.
I adore this find!