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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 597414, member: 51"]Mom is in a retirement home and I empty her recycling out each week. The recycling is in a closet inside the facility, not a big dumpster. As I'm getting ready to empty Mom's recycling, my eye spots this bundle of letters just about 10 inches down.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]177553[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]177554[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe recycled by a relative, etc. Possible that someone passed away.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far I haven't opened a single one. My closest high school buddy is obsessed with things like this... she even goes crazy for old year books imagining the person's life, etc. and promised we could go through these together next time she visits. (Maybe 6 months from now.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Realize this is a bit of an invasion of privacy. Certainly if there is anything too personal, back in the recycling it goes. They are wartime letters. Just couldn't leave them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 597414, member: 51"]Mom is in a retirement home and I empty her recycling out each week. The recycling is in a closet inside the facility, not a big dumpster. As I'm getting ready to empty Mom's recycling, my eye spots this bundle of letters just about 10 inches down. [ATTACH=full]177553[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]177554[/ATTACH] Maybe recycled by a relative, etc. Possible that someone passed away. So far I haven't opened a single one. My closest high school buddy is obsessed with things like this... she even goes crazy for old year books imagining the person's life, etc. and promised we could go through these together next time she visits. (Maybe 6 months from now.) Realize this is a bit of an invasion of privacy. Certainly if there is anything too personal, back in the recycling it goes. They are wartime letters. Just couldn't leave them.[/QUOTE]
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