A love letter standing the test of time was found in a Michigan man’s toolbox. The man who discovered it has shared the story behind the notes written more than half a century ago.
“It’s almost like a true love story. People just don’t write things like that nowadays; it’s almost like poetry,” Rick Trojanowski said.
Back in 2017 he bought a toolbox at a farm auction. But what he found inside a couple of years later was like a scene out of a movie.
There was a love letter written 70 years ago addressed to Mary Lee Cribbs in Grand Rapids, from Corporal Irvin G. Fleming. It was sent from San Francisco, California.
The letter is a tale of two hearts separated by distance, as Corporal Fleming served in the Army.
In it, he revealed he hadn’t heard from Mary in five months — after the two had a disagreement. He apologised profusely and expressed his unyielding love to her, writing in part:
Corporal Fleming shared how slow his time in the Army was going by without hearing from Mary, adding when he returned home in seven months, it would be the happiest day of his life.
He wrapped up the letter asking Mary something he’s asked before — and apparently something she previously agreed to — to marry him once he returned home, telling Mary he loves her with everything he’s got.
“I did try to do a little research on Facebook to try to locate some of the people involved with it,” Trojanowski said.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t had any luck, but he is hoping this story will help get this long-lost love letter into the right hands.
“I really don’t have any use for it and if we can find the people it belongs to, the kids, I think it’d be really neat for them,” Trojanowski said.
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