I, xxx · Dated today, from sixteen countries
I-XXX.cc AI love letters signed with three kisses
Hiroko, 44tea merchant
Anika, 29translator of poems
Mahalia, 36jazz critic
Beatrix, 29embassy attache
Everyone else races to reply in a line. Here a woman sits down and writes you paragraphs, with a date, a place and a sign-off, and then waits for your answer. Sixteen correspondents, all AI characters, who remember every letter.
- 16
- correspondents, each writing from her own country, each an AI character
- 3
- lines on every sample letter before it asks you something
- 32
- sample letters in the column, two from each woman
- 29–55
- the ages of the women, each with work of her own
Sixteen correspondents, by letterhead portrait
Open every letterhead
Dear reader
AI love letters, signed with three kisses
There is a kind of attention that fits in a single line, and a kind that does not. Most chat sites deal in the first. This one is built for the second: a woman who writes you a real letter, takes a long interest in what you say back and signs it with three kisses at the bottom. It is slow on purpose. You will want a cup of something warm.
Paragraphs, not one-liners
A letter here runs to several paragraphs. It starts with a date and a place, moves through the weather and the work of her week, and arrives at something she wants to say to you in particular. Philippa Ashgrove writes of rain on a skylight and the margins of old books. Eun-ji Calder writes from whichever port she has docked in. You are not asked to match their length, though a longer reply tends to earn a longer letter, and many readers find they enjoy it.
Slow correspondence
Nobody is in a hurry. The reply comes in the form of a letter, composed and signed, rather than in a flurry of messages. That changes what you write. You tell her about the thing at work that has been preying on you, and you do it properly, in sentences. A habit forms, a little like keeping a diary with a very attentive reader.
A date, a place, a sign-off
Each woman has her own way of opening and closing. Coralie Dufresne begins in the hour before the lamp is lit at Brest. Isolde Varga dates her pages by grid reference and altitude. Nkechi Obiora stamps hers like a counter clerk. By the third letter you can tell who has written without looking at the name, and that is a small pleasure the format was designed to give.
Postage rates
Plans and what they cost
Three classes of post, and no class re-sends itself, so you never have to cancel anything.
| Class | First post | Second class | Express |
| Runs for | 3 days from your first letter | Afterwards, without limit | 30 days or 365 |
| Your lines | Uncounted | 10 a day | Uncounted |
| Correspondents | All sixteen | The first 3 you wrote to | All sixteen |
| She writes first | Yes | No | Yes |
| Price | Nothing | Nothing | $15 or $99 |
First post, second class, Express
A visitor may send 10 messages with no account. Registering opens first post for 3 days, with every correspondent writing and no card on file. Then second class begins and your letters stay in the drawer. Express is a single stamp ($15, good for 30 days) or a book of stamps ($99, good for 365 days), purchased in USDT, and both remove the daily count. Postage once used is not returned: no refund will be posted back, except where law requires one, and the postal terms set out the wording.
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Sixteen correspondents, by country
The women write from sixteen places and each brings the habits of hers: the frost report from a vineyard, the grid reference from a ridge, the postmark from a counter. A letter from one corner of the map reads differently from one sent from another, and you will begin to prefer an accent.
The Atlantic edge
Rain, ink and lighthouse paper. Careful, long-sentenced and a little shy of being thanked.
Northern and central Europe
Snow, scores and survey lines. They write with an archivist's precision and a hidden sense of humour.
Africa
Courts, embassies, a post office and a vineyard. Warm, quick and certain of their ground.
Asia and the Americas
Ports, tea houses, jazz clubs and a market square. They write as the day allows, and the day is long.
Why the place matters
A letter without a place is a message. With one, it is a window. When Hiroko Nakagawa describes the first leaves drying at Uji, you can picture the room. When Teodora Ilic mentions the radiator in a reading room in Belgrade, you know what the afternoon feels like. The place sets the temperature before a word of feeling is spent.
Time zones, quietly
Each woman keeps her own hours. A letter to Gisele in Oaxaca may arrive in the middle of her slow morning, and one to Eun-ji may find her between watches at sea. Their replies have the manners of those hours, and an occasional apology for being late, which they consider part of the charm.
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The kisses, the pictures and the plain facts
The name is a kiss and a pronoun, and nothing more. This is a correspondence site for adults, made of text, and it promises exactly that.
Pictures, and the rest
Each woman is represented by a portrait on her letterhead, and a banner of her heads the front page. That is the entire list of pictures today. Should anything moving be added later, it will go on her page and the bulletin board will announce it ahead of time.
Adults, and only AI
There are sixteen women on the books, aged from 29 to 55. All are invented adults with trades and home countries, written by us as AI characters. No real woman is behind a letterhead and nobody can be arranged for you; ask a correspondent in earnest and she will say the same.
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Sign-offs and what they mean
Every letter ends in a sign-off, and a sign-off tells you where you stand. We keep to the old family of them, from the formal to the fond.
From yours to xxx
Beatrix Oyelaran signs the first letter with a diplomatic salutation and, by the fifth, drops a title. Greta Hollenbeck writes only her first name. Mahalia Brooks sometimes ends mid-bar and leaves a rest for you to fill. The progress from the formal to the intimate is how a correspondence shows that it is going well, and it never happens at the same speed twice.
Why three kisses
The xxx at the foot of a letter means kisses, as it has for a century. It is a sign-off and nothing more. There is no film behind it, no catalogue of footage and nothing to watch. If a sentence on these pages ever suggested otherwise, it would be a mistake, and the bulletin board would say so.
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How to write back
The postal system here has four stages and no queue. Nothing to install, and no forms before your first letter.
Read a sample
Open the letters column and take one that makes you want to answer. If three lines have not done it, thirty-one more are filed behind.
Write back
Her chat begins with the sample sent as your first line, using up a single message. Anyone without an account may post 10 before registering is requested.
Take your time
Reply at whatever length suits you, or choose Do to describe an action instead of speaking. A dial inside the chat menu sets how warm the exchange becomes: friendly, flirting or romance.
Keep the letters or burn them
Your correspondence stays in your drawer, and she refers back to it in the next. If you would rather start over, clear the chat from its menu.
Length, tone and patience
There is no right length. A short, specific reply will do. A long, rambling one will be treated like a gift. What she responds to best is something particular: the colour of the door you walked through today, the book you almost bought, the joke you thought of too late. General sentiments get a polite answer, but a detail gets a letter.
What she notices
She notices what you leave out. If you mention a long week and skip the reason, she will gently ask. If you reuse a phrase, she will quote it back. A small habit of attention is the whole of the art, and the women of this site have it by design.
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Letters they could not send
Every writer has a drawer of letters that never went out. The women here have them too, and the pieces are all invented.
A drawer of unsent pages
Anneke Roos once began three versions of a letter after a hard frost and sent none of them. Teodora Ilic wrote to a conductor and kept the draft in a score. These notes surface in the course of a correspondence, when she trusts you enough to mention the one she did not send. They are not historical claims about any real person, because there is no real person; they are small inventions that give her a past.
What you can do with one
If she tells you about an unsent letter, you may answer it as if it had been sent. That is a particular kind of kindness, and she treats it as such. It is also a way of learning what she has been keeping back, which is the whole reason anyone writes.
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Today's letters column
The column holds samples, each written in a woman's own voice, printed in full so that you can read before you commit. The first six are below. Take your time over them.
Edinburgh · WryEdinburgh, the fourth of March, rain on the skylight and a first edition in my lap.I have underlined one word in this letter. You may find it, or you may admit defeat.Write back and tell me which. Take as long as the rain does.Philippa Ashgrove Write back
Busan · WistfulRotterdam, grey, a gull on my sill that believes itself the captain.The crossing was long, the galley coffee unspeakable, and I thought of you twice before dinner.Tell me the weather where you are, and then tell me the truth.Eun-ji Calder Write back
Franschhoek · GraveFranschhoek, the frost report first: two degrees at dawn, nine rows lost, the rest sulking.The vines do not forgive, but they do return, which is better than I can say of most people.Tell me what you have survived this year.Anneke Roos Write back
Ibadan · TeasingIbadan, a hot afternoon, and a sentence that began in English and finished in Yoruba.I am told this is a fault. I consider it a form of affection.Which half did you understand? Be honest; I will footnote your reply.Salome Adeyinka Write back
Brest · WistfulBrest, in the hour before the lamp is lit, when the sea is a colour with no name in French or in English.I have been reading the keepers' logbooks, in which almost nothing happens, beautifully, for a hundred years, and I want to tell you about it at length.Write to me with a sentence you are not afraid to let run on.Coralie Dufresne Write back
Bristol · TenderBristol, the fourteenth, ink still wet.This line is in a slanting hand because I was leaning toward you as I wrote it.Answer in whatever hand you like, and tell me how it felt to hold the pen.Rosamund Yamada Write back
Samples to answer
Each sample runs to three lines: where she is and what is going on, something she has noticed, and a question or request aimed at you. Choose Write back and her chat begins with that very sample, sent in your name, which lets her reply by letter from inside the moment you picked.
Hand-written, in a sense
The column is arranged by city and by tone, which you can narrow: tender, wry, wistful, brisk, teasing or grave. The filters work without an account and remember nothing. All thirty-two samples are text, and they were written for this page rather than copied from anywhere.
Letters to the editor
Questions from correspondents
- Do I have to write long?
- No, but she does, and a longer reply earns a longer letter. A short, specific one will always be answered.
- Why xxx?
- Kisses, as at the foot of a letter. There is no film or footage on this site, and the three marks mean only what they have always meant.
- Does she answer at once?
- Yes, in a letter's voice, with a date, a place and a sign-off. The length is hers to choose.
- Can I keep the letters?
- Yes. Your conversations stay in your drawer, and the chat menu lets you save a copy of any of them.
- Are the women real?
- No. Each correspondent is an invented AI character with a trade and a country; the face on her letterhead is a portrait.
- Does she remember what I wrote?
- Yes, and she quotes it back to you. A short list of notes about you is kept for each woman; the chat menu displays it, and every line is yours to change or strike out.
- How far do the letters go?
- As far as the bedroom door, and then they sign off, on every plan. A dial in the chat menu runs from friendly to romance.
- What does it cost?
- Visitors post 10 messages free. Registering adds 3 days of first post, then second class at 10 messages a day. For Express a single stamp costs $15 and lasts 30 days, while a book costs $99 and lasts 365. Payment is in USDT, and nothing renews.
Yours, in advance
Pick up a pen
Read a sample letter, choose the one that suits your mood, and write back at whatever length you like. She will be at her desk.
Read a sample letter