#873 Finding a mix tape given to you by an old boyfriend or girlfriend
Stashed away in shoeboxes, basements, and broom closets around the world are some of our greatest treasures.
That’s where we might find old prom photos, expired driver’s licenses, handwritten letters from faraway friends, or maybe, if we’re really lucky, one of those beautiful gems known as an old Love Tape.
Love Tapes are simply any mix tape carefully put together by someone who like-likes you. Yes, that blurry, distant boyfriend or girlfriend probably spent hours timing songs to fit perfectly on a side of a tape, painstakingly scrawled out love notes and drawings on stickers, and maybe, if you’re lucky, even sprayed it with a bit of perfume.
Depending on your time frame, your mix tape, or mix 8-track, or mix CD may contain gems such as:
Unchained Melody by The Righteous BrothersMore Than Words by ExtremeEverything I Do (I Do It For You) by Bryan AdamsCan’t Help Falling In Love by UB40I Will Always Love You by Whitney HoustonI Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) by MeatloafMy Heart Will Go On by Celine DionIs This Love by Bob MarleyEnd Of The Road by Boyz II MenYou Were Meant For Me by JewelGod Only Knows by The Beach BoysTime After Time by Cyndi LauperEternal Flame by The BanglesSo search your heart. Search your soul. And when you find mix tapes there, you will search no more. So don’t tell me, they’re not worth looking for. You can’t tell me, they’re not worth searching for. You know it’s true. Everything mix tapes do.
They do it for you.
AWESOME!
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