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Commentary: It took me 30 years to read the wartime letters my father wrote to my mother

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An Open Letter to My Father, Sent From a Singapore Dorm Room

The last time you read a letter from me was probably the one I scribbled in marker for Father’s Day when I was five. Neither of us would’ve thought the next one would be published online, much less 16 ...
America Magazine

My Lenten Letters and the Woolly Bear Caterpillar

Many years ago, when I was prayerfully considering what my Lenten practices would be, I felt invited by the Lord to write six letters to my father, one for each week of Lent. My father, who was 57 at ...
Chicago Tribune

Barbara J. Ferraro: It took me 30 years to read the wartime letters my father wrote to my mother

Fifty-nine letters, bound by a brittle rubber band, saved in a dresser drawer for a half-century. Wartime letters sent by my father to my mother at her family home in Chicago, written in his own hand ...