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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marie Forjan, post: 597963, member: 147&quot;]I have a load of letters my parents wrote to each other the year before they got married. My favorite is this one, written the night before their wedding:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Washington, June 24, 1941 11:30PM</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Dearest Sweetheart,</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The bachelor dinner is all over and the boys have just left. We had quite a gay time and I was complimented from all sides on my cooking. I grilled steak a lo my Darling Mary. We drank several toasts, one one to the Bride proposed by the groom, after which we destroyed our glasses so they would never be used in a less honorable fashion. This was in the nature of a minor tragedy since it left us with three glasses. Thereafter one of us drank from an egg cup and one from a tea cup. Altogether we assimilated slightly less than a gallon of wine, (something I can’t read here, I think about coffee). One of the boys had to walk off a fit of nausea and the other three were quite gay. I felt quite as normal, probably because I ate so much. Right now I am a little sleepy. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>We sang for a while, especially those songs with Mary in them. (note: Mary was my mother’s name.) “Flow Gently Sweet Afton”, “the Rose of Tralee”, “Mary is a Good old Name”, and the like. It was all a lot of fun.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I’ll cut this short Dearest, to make the last mail. I hope it reaches you before breakfast, but I’m afraid it won’t. I will be in at 9:18, and please meet me at the escalator. I love you as much and anyone can.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Your affectionate lover,</i></p><p><i>Harold</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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