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These old "romance" cards are often odd. Our sensibilities and those from 100 years ago do not mesh. Often they are suggestive in a manner you wouldn't expect with an undercurrent of coyness. Today the same message would be done suggestive and rude. But what makes some of them worthwhile are the messages on the back that have nothing to do with the image on the front. The sender often completely avoids the suggestive image and instead writes a message as if they were sending a photo of a lovely tree. It's these two worlds colliding that make them interesting. Okay, that's often true of post card messages, but these just seem even stranger.