A Cold War Love Story

A marvelous, unique and very happy fairytale is what my parents always called their love story. It also was one that was very unlikely to have happened in the first place. Both of them were born during World War II and it was very improbable that they would ever meet, let alone fall in love. Separated by about 1,200 miles at a time before cell phones and the internet, their paths would most likely never meet. But their paths met and they fell in love. I knew about their love story since I saw it in person for almost 50 years. 

I missed the contact I used to have with my parents. My mom passed suddenly one night in January 2010 from a heart ailment and I no longer could talk to her. My dad could not talk normally due to dementia that culminated in a stroke in late 2015. Afterwards, he only spoke in short sentences and normal conversations were not possible. A year later, I remembered the large number of letters my mom gave me. They were ones my parents wrote to each other from when they were courting and all the way up to 2000’s. 

After reading their letters, I thought it would make a good book. After 4.5 years of work I finally completed it.