Wow, what a trip!

[no_hypocrisy]

I just found a cache of letters sent to me 40+ years ago. From friends I forgot wrote to me.

They are so precious!

I miss how letters were sent on a regular basis, before e-mail.

My head is spinning from the excitement of re-reading all of them.

[cilla4progress]

1. Cool!

[niyad]

2. Wayyyy cool!

[Nittersing]

3. I have a box of letters my Dad wrote to me

Starting when I moved to Colorado (1979 or so) until we were all connected via email.

Such a treasure.

[kimbutgar]

4. An old friend gave me a letter I write to her in college

First of all I could no longer write that neat of cursive and it was 5 pages! I have the letters my husband wrote me while he was in the Navy. And he has the ones I wrote him, again I can’t imagine writing a 7 page handwritten letter like that !

[CottonBear]

5. That is so cool! 😃

[SonofDonald]

6. Recently I dug out a box from one of my moves years ago

In it were letters and cassette tapes that my little Sister sent me when I lived in Unalaska from 1979 to 1992, as there was only the armed forces radio network to listen to in the middle of nowhere, her tapes were the only exposure to new music I heard all through the 80’s except for what crew members on the crab boats I fished on brought up from down south, there were also vhs/Betamax videos from MTV’s early years

I started reading her letters and couldn’t stop the feelings washing over me, my Sister Nancy was one of my best friends and she passed from brain cancer in 2015, I was the one to follow her well known order to not be kept alive by machines and I carried out her wish


But yes it’s really special to find a treasure like yours and mine, her letters really took me back to a better time

They won’t be put back in a box in a closet again, I’m going to share them all with my family next time we’re all together

[LuvLoogie]

7. Nice.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. I know! I had that too recently and my friend sent me copies of some I sent to him

it's such a wonderful trip down memory lane...

[murielm99]

9. I found a letter that was 58 years old.

It was in a book. It is precious. You are right.

[KPN]

10. That's really cool. I have a box full of letters from my Mom and others all from the late 70s when

I lived three years overseas. I have never looked at them since but as I get older, they cross my mind frequently and I really do need to do that. Your post just might inspire me to do that!