List: Elaine and Foster's Story

My mother and father's love story based on hundreds of letters written during WWII and passed down to me - their only child.

• The Christmas of 1944

  Don’t let it be me God.
  Please don’t let it be me who is left behind.

  34 lines, 20 comments, on Apr 9 10:01 PM 2005. In Other, Love
• Letter from Our Fathers

  53 lines, 93 comments, on Apr 30 10:57 AM 2005. In Society, honor, courage, soldiers, war, fathers, love
• Letter #884

  If only victory would come and I knew you were safe, it would be the happiest day of my life. I love and miss you so terribly.

  25 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 30 11:27 PM 2005. In Love, war, letters, WWII
• Elaine's Song - 1945 (triolet) & Paradise Refound (villanelle)

  My heart rose too, no longer sad and forlorn,
  Burning hot like the stars. I am in ecstasy.

  54 lines, 37 comments, on Jul 24 12:03 AM 2005. In Love
• In their honor

  73 lines, 25 comments, on Apr 3 9:25 PM 2006. In Contemporary, cancer, memorial poem
• Elaine's Tanka

  6 lines, 20 comments, on May 26 9:54 AM 2007. In Love, Sad, Pain, war, separation
• Introduction to Elaine and Foster's Story

  12 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 17 12:09 PM. In Love, war, letters, WWII
• Letter # 887 - During the Battle of the Bulge

  19 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 17 12:16 PM. In Love, love letters, WWII, war, separation

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