I might not have followed up if I had not heard your sweet voice

To tell you the truth its mostly because of my clueless blithering state on what to say after the girl says hello..Im not kidding...
By contacting her by e-mail first, I get a sense of how responsive she is and can get a feel perhaps on how she runs her affairs and thoughts on varoius subjects. Subjects that are sometimes not real conducive to a first or secound time phone call.
I ceratainly agree that phone calls are preferalble to solely e-mail communication but like e-mail for the first contact and then followed with a  phone call or two.

Oh I much prefer phone calls. One can tell so much from a voice that words on a computer cannot express.

Happy belated birthday to you my dear!! Like you, I am back from my European trip earlier this month.

So jealous of those that live 2500 miles closer to you than I do!

Still waiting patiently for you on the west coast.......

xoxoxoxox!!!