Okay, this is embarrassing. When I was in 6th or 7th grade, my friends and I formed a ‘secret’ group to send anonymous notes to all the boys we had crushes on. We took turns writing the words in each note, so as to muddy the handwriting analysis we were sure the boys would undertake. The notes were written in pink and purple gel pens which were a new thing at the time and we signed them “The Pink and Purple People”, hahaha. We had a friend outside the group deliver the notes, never guessing that she’d reveal our identities – which she did immediately, of course!
Thinking back, the boys were truly lovely about it. They didn’t let on that they knew who we were for quite some time, and continued to receive the on-going notes graciously. When it finally came out that they’d known all along, we invited them all over to one girl’s house for a group hang-out/movie day. Two of the guys didn’t come, but the rest of us had fun. No romances came of it, but we were all still friends afterward.
Interestingly, I received a ‘secret admirer’ letter years later when I was in high school. It was very flowery and flattering, but I never did learn the identity of the sender. I still wonder about it sometimes.