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swiss army knives don�t open Love letters... xabier zabaleta   The Swiss Army pocket knife you have in your hands will help you know whether you are holding a love letter in you hands or not. Don�t forget your Swiss Army knife by your side when you arrive home on a rainy night and you get a letter. For a knife is no good to open a love letter. Contrary to bank invoices, love letters have no small words, no magnifying glass is needed. A love letter always has a flow of words, you�ll never get a just one single side scribbled letter. Because words flow out of ourselves, without the help of the built-in cork screw you find in most Swiss Army knives. And for the same reason, because the words flow fluently, they leap from the paper to your heart without even having to use the can-opener.

The Swiss Army knife is also useless to write a love letter (or read it). The Swiss Army knife was originally thought for the Army. And armies and love make a clumsy couple. The clumsiest there has ever existed (let alone Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley). And what about knives? Does anyone know a buddy who got a love letter and cut their veins and thought about suicide? The knife back to place and the Swiss Army knife over the window is the right thing to do when you get a love letter. Just in case, for after love letters we very often get letters that announce the end of the story. Not on the same day, nor even the same week or month. A year can be allowed, but it could be that when you least expect it, your mail-box could hide a perfume-less hand-written letter. And before opening that letter, you look for the Swiss Army knife, because you want to find what lies beyond the words �I don�t love you anymore� and for that you will need the aid of the magnifying glass (same as when the bank invoices and bank notices salute you with a �Yours Sincerely.�)

And the words don�t flow fluently anymore, they seem to be fast glued to the paper, they don�t want to leave the paper nor even with the help of your tears. So, for all that, using a knife may come to your mind. And that is the risk of the Swiss Army knife, that it was made to be used by the Army. And Armies and blood sure make a nice match. And sometimes they have children. Name of the latest: Oil. For all this, next time you are going to read a letter and see you don�t need a �pocket knife�, you�ll know you are heading for a love letter. If that is so, don�t waste your time, throw away your knife to the garbage less the chance of using it shows up.