The End of the Story… Or Is It?

In grandma’s 1942 diary, she added a note on February 6, 1944. Up til the first part of June this book might as well not be — the 1st part just disgusts me — then came June — Zip — The Chicken Coop + good times + August + Zip again — I loved him — (maybe…

A love story with missing pieces

This week I received the final batch of letters from Zip to my grandma, all the way up to August, 1945. It’s been heart-wrenching to read them. They’re not so much love letters as they are loneliness and longing letters. Zip wasn’t one for the “mushy stuff” as grandma complained in one of her diary…

A love story with missing pieces

This week I received the final batch of letters from Zip to my grandma, all the way up to August, 1945. It’s been heart-wrenching to read them. They’re not so much love letters as they are loneliness and longing letters. Zip wasn’t one for the “mushy stuff” as grandma complained in one of her diary…