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Love Letters

2004 Edition, 6.14x9.21, 236  pages
ISBN: 0-9748730-5-5

He was 31, athletic, an eligible bachelor in  the small town of Clifton Forge, VA.  She was turning 20, graceful,  a beauty living in the even smaller town of Big Island, VA.  He was in  the sixth year of practice as the only pediatrician in Clifton Forge, the  neighboring city of Covington and the surrounding counties, total population  about 25,000.  She was just starting out as a dance instructor in Covington  and Clifton Forge, trying to make a living in the waning years of the  Great Depression.  His parents were immigrants who had left Germany  and Poland as teenagers to seek their fortunes in the New World, met in  New York City, courted, married, and moved to mountainous western Virginia to escape the polluted air of the big city and to open a retail store selling  general merchandise.  Her
parents had Virginia ancestors going back  generations, to pre-Revolutionary War days - her father was an  engineer and paper-mill superintendent; her mother, a Republican  party
activist.  He was Jewish.  She was Southern Baptist.  Neither had  been in a serious relationship.  Both had been valedictorians in high  school.  Thus begins the preface to Love Letters, a collection of 154  letters written during the 28-month courtship between Monty Fliess and  Irwin Foster, lovingly transcribed by their son, Maurice R. Fliess.

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