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SCRIBBLE PICNIC ~ LETTERS/MAIL

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Love Letters ~ Watercolor by Wanda She was the daughter of an affluent Rancher.  He was a dirt poor farmer.  They met, and since they lived 100 miles apart, they began a friendship through letters.   Over the next year they wrote, but as the months rolled on the friendship letters became love letters.  The next time they met a year later, he proposed, she accepted.  They married.  That was my mom and dad. My sister and I had heard about the love letters over the years, but never had seen them.  Mother was a private woman.  After her passing as we were going through her things, we found the letters. The ones my dad sent mom were in pristine condition tied with a ribbon.  The ones my mom had sent him, were tattered, worn, smudged and tied with a string.  He must have carried them in his overhauls while plowing, and read them over and over again.   My sister and I sat down and read them aloud.  Laughing and crying and...