Confessions of Affection
In a time of quick texts, emojis, and social media, let’s bring back the good old fashioned love letter!
Slow down, relax, and get into your feels as you listen to love from yesteryear to today. Each release will include a old-timey love letter written by a famous author, public figure, or was found in a published work of truth or fiction. These old love letters were located within the public domain, a database of copyright-free works.
Perhaps the love of yore inspires you... but if not, you will also get to hear a modern-day love letter submitted by you, the public. Take a peek into the emotional experience of your peers. Hear their love, their longing, their loss, and their resolution.
Are you feeling inspired to share how you love? Submit your love letters via https://www.lizvarney.com/confessions
Episodes
17 episodes
To your Ears, from my Heart
This love letter was submitted by the public"Every time I reach for you, I check for heat. I feel for warmth. I palpate for the heart that thumps for me ..."
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4:40
To Red River from Ruby Starseed
This love letter is submitted from the public..."As I feel the energy of your gazeThe universe moves through me with a current thatBreaks me wide"
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10:25
To Fanny Brawne, From John Keats
"When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of the window: you always concentrate my whole senses." Special thanks to: Timeless Love: Poems, Stories and Letters, edited by J. Bailey, Library of Congress Cataloging...
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4:06
To Will, From Molly
Love is finding out that saying the hard things makes love stronger rather than leading to destruction.
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2:21
The Tell Tale Heart, By Edgar Allen Poe
Happy Halloween Spooky Lovers! This is my ode to my original loves - Halloween and Edgar Allen Poe. I performed this Tale in my 10th grade English class where my performance anxiety certainly helped me to sound like a nervous mad man! I have co...
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16:43
To Darkness, From the Light
Happy Halloween Lovers!Maybe for some, the scariest thing about love is being seen fully ... but can you truly feel loved without your lover seeing all of you?
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6:13
To Dearest Friend from John Kelly
"As for our prospects in life, you know they are humble, very humble, and unless our minds are humble too, we have no chance for happiness." - John KellyReference: Hathi Trust "An Old Love Letter"
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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7:43
To My Wife From Your Wife
Confessions of Affection was not only blessed to share this beautiful love story, but in this confession, we also get to hear the reply! What a blessing to be a witness to this great love.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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10:02
To Victor Hugo from Juliette Drouet
Love has a way of awakening all the senses and making the world look just a little brighter, sound a little more harmonious and at the same time make us feel so ... unworthy. Reference:
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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3:31
To E from E
Do the love and connection still exist even though each person's lives have changed and moved on? It is difficult to know if the feelings are still true or just a projection of the past ... and finding out is risky.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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4:29
To Thunderbird from Penguin
This love letter was submitted by the public. "Now my love has nowhere to goSo I wear it like a burial shroud."
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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2:17
To Diego Rivera from Frida Kahlo
Nothing burns hotter than the love between two artists. Please listen carefully as this passionate lover does not mind her language for sensitive ears. Reference ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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4:24
To J from D
This letter is submitted by the public. D shares their transcendent out-of-this love for the wonderful J. While this love has not manifested "on this earthly plane," it has still found a way to heal, support, and calm - even from a distance.&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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10:43
An Englishwoman's Love Letters by Housman
It's one thing to know when you are in love, but what about the moment when you realize your truest desire, your greatest plan, your hope against hope has finally come true? What about that moment when you realize that the one you love, in fact...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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7:50
To Accomplice from Convicted
This letter is submitted by the public. When you have jailed your heart and banished your lover’s name from ever being spoken, the only possible way for your love to be paroled is to confess your true feelings and hope for exoneration.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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6:02
To Sarah Helen Whitman from Edgar Allen Poe
With spooky season right around the corner, Poe is my inaugural lovesick lover du jour. Poe will take you on a roller coaster of emotions for his dear love “Helen.” The letter is read as it has been published which includes missing and crossed ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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24:49
Confessions of Affection Trailer
In a time of quick texts, emojis, and social media, let’s bring back the good old fashioned love letter!Slow down, relax, and get into your feels as you listen to love from yesteryear to today. Each release will include a old-timey love...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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