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On Active Service

  “I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away.” My brother-in-law said. “I’m sure there’s a story here somewhere.” The letters were in several shoe boxes, totally out of order, birthday cards, telegrams, wedding invitations, even shopping lists, all jumbled up amongst them. My parents-in-law were sentimental. They hated the idea of throwing anything away, particularly the words they wrote to each other. How lucky for us that they did. For the majority of this correspondence covers the time my father-in-law was away “on active service”, for a year...

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