A few years ago I bought a collection of vintage Valentine’s Day cards on eBay. I found this letter tucked inside one of them yesterday. It’s dated February 14, 1957 and as far as I know it’s totally legit.
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7 Responses to "Two pages from someone’s life"
1 | elsewise
Oh, this made my daydreams go crazy. I like to imagine that they ended up together (I do hope that he wasn’t as ticked off as she believed him to be!), and that someone will somehow stumble upon this letter, recognize the story, and reunite the letter with its family.
2 | Giulia
This makes for a great movie, that last little twist before they hopefully speak and clear things up and end up happily ever after. Lovely to find something like this.
3 | Yael
this just made my morning. what a beautiful thing to find!
i hope they were reunited (although in today’s world i can’t imagine losing someone over buying two valentine’s cards ;)) – what an amazing find!
January 18th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
You should contact the person you bought the cards from and find out if s/he knows who the letter was from and if those two got together.
5 | Janet
January 19th, 2012 at 11:09 am
wow! how interesting!!
I would love to know the outcome of that letter…or if it ever reached the guy in the first place.
thanks for sharing it.
6 | Mark
Mrs. Hornsby should have just minded her own business. The old biddy!
7 | Sarah
February 14th, 2013 at 4:48 pm
One can only hope that they were reunited and she got to surprise him with the big red bow someday!
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