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Love letter - a traditional Filipino courtship custom

                                                         Scouse Smurf/Flickr In its simplest term, courtship is defined as a romantic relationship between two people. A courtship comes in many forms depending on a person’s established courtship customs. Traditionally, it would be men who would initiate and pursue courtship with women. There's no standard way or method of courting a woman but only established informal traditional courtship customs.  Despite the modernity of life brought about by digital technology, courtship has not lost its appeal among the younger generation. It is still observed and practiced regardless of culture, socioeconomic, and nationality. Though courtship customs differ from country to country. Men of different cultures have different ways of courting a woman.  Filipinos have their own indirect, romantic ways of courting women, writing a love letter to a woman is just one of them. For a very long time, it has been practiced by many Filipino men as a way o