Imagine a time…when it took weeks—even months—to hear from someone you loved or cared about.
Letters were written, often with great care, and were sent and received with eager expectation or perhaps apprehension, depending on what was in the letter. In few situations are those communications from loved ones, family, and friends more important than when they are exchanged with someone serving in the military. With a war on and them in it, those letters were treasured far more because each one might be their last. And the letters they received could form their final thoughts of home, love, and you.
A tremendous responsibility to rest on something as simple as letters.
Between the letters lies the gap of what was and what i
s. A void often filled with a palpable stress that stoked the thoughts rattling around inside one’s head as they ran up and down the scale from wondering to dread. The men and women at the front could blank that out in their world where men and women were wounded and dying every day. But in the lulls, when the clamor of war quieted, the thoughts returned. Those in the “rear” back home with fewer distractions to shift their attention often dwelled in that odd time and space—rarely a comfortable one—between letters.
This book takes you back in time with two people who lived in that between space during one of the most tumultuous and deadly periods in history. You’ll follow their thoughts, their dreams, and their concerns—and through the hundreds of letters shared—their love for each other. We find that those so valuable human traits of faith, faithfulness, respect, and love can bind two hearts and two souls together.
To witness a love that spans over six decades is something very special. Within the pages of Dear Valentina you have a front-row seat.
Dear Valentina cover (back)
