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July 7, 1943.
Dear Son: I am sorry to hear that you are having trouble with them boils again. Please do some thing for them. Go in the hospital and get...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 25, 20212 min read
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July 6, 1943.
Dear Darling: Received both of your letters today and it was paradise i haven’t heard from you for a few days, but that isn’t your fault....

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Apr 24, 20213 min read
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July 6, 1943.
Dearest Mom: Just a few lines to tell you what’s been happen here. As I told you before we are now starting on the 40 millimeter Gun. The...

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Apr 24, 20211 min read
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July 5, 1943.
[incomplete letter] With my family and always would. She said that I listened too much to what other people said. She told me to take my...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 24, 20212 min read
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July 4, 1943.
Dear Mom: I received your letter of June 30. So it is hot in Youngstown well it hasn’t been very hot here in fact it has been raining...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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July 2, 1943.
Dearest Ranny: Received your card and was most certainly glad to hear from you. I haven’t heard for a couple of days but I understand...

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Apr 21, 20213 min read
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July 1, 1943.
Dear Mom: I received your letter but I was very busy so I’m sorry I’ve not written? Please send the films. How are you and is Joe doing...

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Apr 21, 20212 min read
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July 1, 1943.
Dearest Ranny; I received your letter + thought it was wonderful. You can really write interesting letters. A lot better than mine...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 17, 20213 min read
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June 29, 1943.
Hi Jitterbug, How are you? Sorry to hear that you are not happy but I guess no one is at a time like this. I guess the only thing we can...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 17, 20211 min read
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June 30, 1943.
Dear Ralph, I was glad to hear from you. I am now located at North Camp Hood Texas instead of Camp Bowie, that is probably the reason I...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 17, 20212 min read
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June 30, 1943.
Dear Son: We are all feeling well only it is very hot and I say hot. It has been warm for about five days straight. I bet Texas is worse....

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 15, 20212 min read
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Guest Blog: A Graphologist Reads a Rendano.
One of the most common questions we get to Flea Market H.Q. comes along the lines of How do you read the handwriting? Often times, the...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 15, 20214 min read
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June 30, 1943.
Hello Ranny: Well kid its good to hear from you. Say Ralph you wouldn’t bitch so much if you knew the trouble we are having in the G.F....

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 14, 20211 min read
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June 28, 1943.
My Great Lover: Was more than glad to hear from you, since we don’t get mail here on Sundays. Do you receive mail on Sunday? I’m happy to...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 11, 20215 min read
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June 28, 1943.
Dearest Ralph; Received your most interesting letter. I was sure glad to hear from you. I thought that you wouldn’t write to me. They...

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Apr 11, 20212 min read
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Books About Letters: "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society"
This was a long awaited, much requested read for us at Flea Market Love Letters H.Q. Many, many folks met me -- Hi, I'm Liz! -- with...

Flea Market Love Letters
Apr 10, 20213 min read
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June 28, 1943.
Dearest Ranny: Really don’t know how to start this belated letter. How ya doin’ Jack? Still hip as ever? Go to any dances lately? Man...

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Apr 5, 20211 min read
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June 27, 1943.
Dear Ranny: I was just talking to your mother on the phone. She wants me to go up to night, but I wanted to stay home. But she talked me...

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Apr 5, 20215 min read
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Writing Through the Decades: "The Gentleman's Letter Writer" (1870s)
It's the first Sunday of the month which means we're back with another installment of "Writing Through the Decades". This time we're...

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Apr 4, 20212 min read
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June 27, 1943.
Dear Ralph, The past time I wrote you from the store, but today being so hot, about 92 degrees in the shade, I went down and when I felt...

Flea Market Love Letters
Mar 31, 20213 min read
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