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In my youth, emoticons didn't really exist apart from the original smiley. That said, flirting through body language was mostly confined to smiling, staring at each other, or winking at most - with just any eye. A few generations back, however, people used rather sophisticated sign language, or indeed languages, for such purposes, with just anything they could lay their hands on. Really, anything could come in handy, from the obvious handkerschiefs and gloves, through hats, fans and paras...

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In my youth, emoticons didn't really exist apart from the original smiley. That said, flirting through body language was mostly confined to smiling, staring at each other, or winking at most - with just any eye. A few generations back, however, people used rather sophisticated sign language, or indeed languages, for such purposes, with just anything they could lay their hands on. Really, anything could come in handy, from the obvious handkerschiefs and gloves, through hats, fans and paras...

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Old Ways of Flirtation From When There Were No Emoticons

In my youth, emoticons didn't really exist apart from the original smiley. That said, flirting through body language was mostly confined to smiling, staring at each other, or winking at most - with just any eye. A few generations back, however, people used rather sophisticated sign language, or indeed languages, for such purposes, with just anything they could lay their hands on. Really, anything could come in handy, from the obvious handkerschiefs and gloves, through hats, fans and paras...

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Old Ways of Flirtation From When There Were No Emoticons

In my youth, emoticons didn't really exist apart from the original smiley. That said, flirting through body language was mostly confined to smiling, staring at each other, or winking at most - with just any eye. A few generations back, however, people used rather sophisticated sign language, or indeed languages, for such purposes, with just anything they could lay their hands on. Really, anything could come in handy, from the obvious handkerschiefs and gloves, through hats, fans and paras...

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