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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.
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.