Timeless Love

Sunday, June 27, 1920
 My dearest Darling,
             Just came back from taking Mother to Blockton and Harry handed me your letter.  I was more than pleased as I had not heard from you since Tuesday.  Was afraid you might be sick.  Don’t get all excited about getting a wedding announcement from me, because I have only met one girl I can say that I really care for, and she is away out west. Wyoming, I think? Do you know her?
            Anyway, I will put this one in a business envelope as you say that pleases you better, and that’s just what I want to do.

This is the start of a letter to my great grandmother from my great grandmother in the 1920s. He was a teacher and so was she. They met at school. He lived in Bedford, Iowa.  She was away in Wyoming--though I'm not sure exactly why. They couldn't be together, so they wrote each other constantly.  They loved from a distance and they loved hard. Oh, I was sucked in from the moment I saw the envelope. 

My mother has been holding onto their love letters for, well, forever and decided to share them with me this weekend while I visited.  Mom didn't know what she was doing to me.  As if I needed yet another sign that a love like this really does exist and is timeless.  Some of it could easily pass for a love letter from present time, excluding some of the "swell" and "dandy" word choices.  

I immediately transcribed the whole thing word for word. My mother was frantically searching for the rest of the letters and I pleaded with her to stop looking.  I could easily get wrapped up in my relatives' love story. This is not a good time.  It would just add to my .....  Let them be lost for now.