He sent her mysterious emails, long messages containing only the letter E. She was delighted, captivated, enchanted as she had never been. That she should be chosen as the recipient of these missives!

Above all, she was overwhelmed by the depth of his wisdom, the way he understood the stark truth of reality, the utter simplicity of being: there was no need for consonants, and everything, everything could be captured in the sound of a single vowel.

Then she found out that his keyboard was broken. E was the only thing he could type.