After celebrating a milestone anniversary, a friend of mine recently confessed that it was her husband’s mastery of the semicolon that first set her heart aflutter. Living in different cities in the early, pre-internet days of their courtship, Kyra and Sam communicated in writing. For those too young to remember, this involved pen, paper, and the postal service. Kyra, a reporter who devoured words, looked forward to writing her weekly letters. But she was less sure about her