Speak about a poor postal service; one can never contemplate a delay of this sort even if the postal service is bad. But then again, during times of civil strife and war, public services can go haywire as this incident proves. A 72 year old love letter written by a wife to her husband serving with the allied forces as a Norwegian sailor during WWII ended up “Return to Sender” but reached only after 70 years.
United Services Organization volunteer Virginia Christoffersen wrote the most heartwarming of love letters to her husband saying “ I love you Rolf, as I love the warm sun that is what you are to my life, the sun about which everything else revolves for me." Unfortunately the letter never made it to her husband. The letter was returned to Virginia with a stamp saying “REFUSED” . It took the letter 70 years to reach its recipient who wasn’t even living at the address to receive it.
1 The letter was found in a crack in the attic stairs
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Virginia’s 72-year-old love letter was found in a crack in the attic stairs by a family who had moved into the same house where she had once lived. Melissa Fahy and her father Al Cook found the stained envelope which may have been thrown into the house and got lodged in the gap of the stairs lying unnoticed for decades. Here is the letter:
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2 Until death do us apart
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It was a time when there was no email, no, texting, no Facebook messenger or whatsapp. It was Pen and paper which still remains one of the most powerful medium when expressing emotions through words. Said Melissa “When I read it, I just couldn’t believe the love and admiration she had for her husband, it was really sweet to see that long-distance love. You didn’t have texting, you didn’t have email.”
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