The Basic Rule of any Long Distance E-mail Correspondence

The concept of your first letter

It must include some information. If you are writing a letter you have at least seen her picture. If you are curious you have read her profile and know about her hobbies, preferences and so on. You are already communicating with her in your thoughts but she knows nothing about you. You are a clean sheet of paper for her or something you have written on this sheet!

If you write something like,