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Love Letters Posted Along Lorcom Lane

by ARLnow.com | March 15, 2013 at 10:45 am | 4,536 views | 48 Comments

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Some hopeless romantic has stapled a series a posters to utility poles along Lorcom Lane, declaring his or her love for one special lady.

The love letters, which were visible to traffic heading from Spout Run Parkway to Lee Highway yesterday, had messages like “Proud to Be Yours,” “I Love You Forever,” and “The Only Woman In The World For Me.”

One passerby was befuddled by the romantic declarations.

“It’s not even Valentine’s Day,” he observed, scratching his head. On Twitter, there were questions as to whether the posters were a declaration of love or an apology, with one reader using the hashtag “#lovelettersordoghouse.”

Update at 3:15 p.m. — The mystery continues, as the initial claim of credit for the love letters appears to be an hoax perpetrated by an individual who assumed the identity of another person. ARLnow.com apologizes to both named individuals who were falsely identified as the writer and the recipient.

Hat tip to @rebeccapenno

South Awwlington

Fatal Attraction type?
- Rocky
  
  Maybe the writer was bit by that raccoon.
ALLCAPS

Stop shouting.
Keith

Definitely dog house. From Spout Run to Lee? Had to catch her attention on the way home from work from DC. Must have been a fight that morning before work.
malaka

Cheaper than flowers I guess
a stalker

Or maybe it’s me.
Louise

This is awesome!
StankyYank

Sounds like that dude needs to get laid….
- StankyYank
  
  Better yet, sounds like he’s either trying to get laid or got laid and reaaaaalllllly liked the way she shook that thang….
  - Julia
    
    if he’s trying to get laid, he’s doing it wrong, The poster that says “I need you”" -that’s the worst thing a man can ever say to a woman. “I want you” – great. “I love you” – great. “I respect you” – sounds you are apologizing for something. “I need you” – you sound needy. No woman wants a needy man.
  - ARL
    
    Nah. This is either a guy in the doghouse, a romantic with not much creativity, or a deluded stalker type, in that order. Nobody is delude enough to try to get laid like this.
- Bill
  
  That isn’t going to help any guy get laid. That’s only going to help prevent a guy from getting the boot because of what he said or did to piss her off.
- YTK
  
  Thanks for reminding me of the time on Lee Highway when someone pasted an “H” over the “D” on the “No Dumping” sign on the side of the road.
Ballstonian

Are the kids at HB Woodlawn doing a Shakespeare production this spring or something? This sounds like someone is borrowing a plot device from “As You Like It” and doing performance art with it.
- Polk
  
  Yeah, I thought HB, too, but the fact that it faces only one direction coming from South Run (and Old Town?) would not quite fit this theory.
  - Polk
    
    Spout Run
Litter bug

I agree. Someone in the dog house. I have no problem with the signs as long as whoever put them up takes them back down.
http://www.arlnow.com/ ARLnow.com

From an email we just received:

“I don’t know who posted them, but I saw more of these (one said like ‘my one, my only, my forever’) on the GW Parkway in Old Town, Alexandria this AM. They were the same, large white paper, red writing.”
- arlcyclist
  
  Not sure if they’re still there, but as of a week ago there were love messages on some of the light posts on N Kensington just north of Lee Hwy. These are done with colorful magnetic letters which looks nicer and is more creative than this chicken scratch on copy paper.
  - http://www.facebook.com/mickey644 Mickey Coe
    
    There’s a lot of women who don’t care what it is written on…..just that it is written is enough
kate

There are a bunch of red balloons and hearts taped to a utility pole on the corner of 24th and N. Illinois. Not sure if there’s a letter there or not.
- Unlucky in Love
  
  How come no one ever leaves red heart balloons for me? I’m nice…
Roger

Looks like he got caught creeping.
novasteve

What’s the border of hopeless romantic and creepy obesssed stalker?
- Only Stalking if You are Ugly
  
  That’s a question probably better directed to the women who have restraining orders against you, Steve.
  - novasteve
    
    Given I have no restraining orders against me, do your personal attacks have to go into the real of defamation now? Stay classy.
    - jennrubenstein
      
      yep, defamation of the unknown anonymous message board over-commenter.
  - drax
    
    You are awarded 1/2 FREDTERP.
Buckwheat

Why is the poster a guy? This is Arlington!
ConstantCritic

sickening!
Piercing Discernment

Similar signs are posted along the median of the GW Parkway in the northbound direction on the north side of Old Town.
jackson

Yikes, now it’s getting creepy.
- Hmm
  
  Haha, ARLnow is the one calling these people out on Twitter, not me.
  
  https://twitter.com/ARLnowDOTcom
Jenks

Don’t outcreep the creeper.
Bob Loblaw

They should be fined for littering, maybe even arrested. Where was neighborhood watch on this one?
drax

Are these compliant with the county’s sign ordinance?

Can’t believe I’m first in with that one.
Silky Johnson

WEAK. PIMP. HAND.
kalashnikev

Any coincidence it was March 14th???
samepagesamelinesameword

Truly touching.
Hope Declan enjoys the credit but it wasn’t him and it wasn’t for her…
Just an idea

ARLnow might want to add a disclosure at the bottom of this article to cover yourself and/or remove this post. According to the Twitter account of the girl you called out on ARLnow’s Twitter account and named by full name here, she’s only 16 years old and probably didn’t want her personal business posted to a news website.
- http://www.arlnow.com/ ARLnow.com
  
  Right, we just updated an article with the correction and an apology.
  
  This is a shame since in the past we’ve been able to track down people who have done notable things — like Dimas Pinzon ( http://www.arlnow.com/2010/08/26/the-virginia-square-metro-hero-speaks/ ) — via good faith email tips from members of the community.
  
  We corresponded with someone via phone and email, via a reference from a supposed friend, and thought we had the right guy. We were also told that both individuals were 18. One of the individuals named retweeted what we sent her and did not immediately deny that she was involved. Once she did, we acted as quickly as possible to remove all traces of her name an the other individual’s name.
  
  Apologies to readers for the false information. In the future, we’ll know that we have to work harder to confirm the identities of those involved in these types of stories.
The Romantic

They were done by a guy who loves a woman, one woman very much, and he’s not doing it to get laid, he just wants the woman of his dreams to know every second of everyday that he is loving her beyond measure. Not because he is in the dog house, but because she is the Most Amazing, Beautiful, Sexy, Desirable, intelligent, Awesome, Cute and Adorable Real Woman Ever !!!!!!
- http://www.facebook.com/mickey644 Mickey Coe
  
  What’s wrong with doing it to get laid? Do you have something against that idea?
- Kim
  
  Dude, tone it down. I think you are misreading how this stunt will be perceived by a woman.
  - Samepagesamelinesameword
    
    They worked exactly as intended – it doesn’t have to work or make sense to anyone else
http://www.facebook.com/mickey644 Mickey Coe

Valentines Day is just that, Valentines Day. That doesn’t mean that you have to wait a year to profess your undying love for your girl…..
Pierre

I would be creeped out if I were this woman
bluejaybannon

saw some of the same on the parkway going north out of old town

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