No Romance in the Mail for Iowa Esperantist

The correspondence was about
policing standards.

There have been some Esperanto romances. Couples have met through the Esperanto movement, formed relationships, and even had children who were brought up as second-generation Esperanto speakers.[1] So, perhaps the intimations of romance weren’t completely off base for the Leon Reporter of Leon, Iowa, when they reported and speculated on the mail received by the Leon deputy sheriff. They knew they were wrong though.

The item is sweet and has a suggestion of far-off romance. A mysterious stranger found by chance, although the newspaper did note that Mr. Mullinnix’s initial correspondent was a Japanese man. And though it was a postcard, aren’t the mails supposed to be accorded some level of privacy? Okay, you’re not tampering with the mail if you read a postcard, but talking about it in the paper?[2]

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