Better Late Than Never? Love Letter Arrives After 53 Years
- Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:52pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Can love endure the test of time? For one California man, that love certainly has been tested.
The Pittsburgh Tribune brings us a bittersweet story about a love letter lost in limbo for over a half-century, finally reaching its destination on…Memory Lane!
A love letter mailed more than a half-century ago from the Hill District to a student at California State Teachers College, now known as California University of Pennsylvania, finally arrived Friday, school officials said.
Postmarked Feb. 20, 1958, the letter was intended for Clark C. Moore, said university spokeswoman Christine Kindl.
The envelope is affixed with four one-cent stamps and was slit open when it arrived, she said. The letter came from Whiteside Road in the Hill District, since renamed Memory Lane, and is signed “Love Forever, Vonnie.”
Unfortunately, however, the recipient of the letter might forever remain at large, as University officials cannot find records of Moore’s attendance:
University officials searched school files and the Internet, including websites such as Yearbook and Facebook, but could not locate Moore, who was a junior in 1958 living in 219 Johnson Hall, Kindl said. They believe he hailed from Herron Avenue in the Hill District and was an alumni of Schenley High School, she said. He would be in his 70s.
The Post Office is still reportedly trying to figure out how the letter found its way into the mail system instead of the dead letters file. One Post Office spokesman believes someone found the letter and slipped it into circulation, like the movie “Cast Away.”
University officials say they plan to hold the letter for safe-keeping until Moore can, hopefully, be located.
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inferno
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 4:35pmIf this had happened to me, I would have been P. O.’d . And I don’t mean Post Officed !
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 4:13pmOn a day like today
We pass the time away
Writing love letters in the sand
How you laughed when I cried
Each time I saw the tide
Take our love letters from the sand
You made a vow that you would ever be true
Report Post »But somehow that vow meant nothing to you
Now my broken heart aches with every wave that brakes
Over love letters in the sand.
Suzanne912
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 2:17pmThis is what you call “snail mail”….
Report Post »GodsPuppet
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 1:59pm“brings us a bittersweet story about a love letter lost in limbo for over a half-century, finally reaching its destination on…Memory Lane! ” NO, it was delivered to a school. NO, the person it was addressed to didn’t receive it! . It’s not a feel good story. It’s a NO STORY.
Report Post »Pastor Ray
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 1:35pmIn 1958 I was 9 in the 3rd grade and I’m 62 now…I think they had better be looking for someone in their 80‘s and not in their 70’s…
Report Post »UKExpat
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 9:23pmEr, he was a student in 1958, so was probably born around 1938 which would make him 73 now
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 12:15pmWhy is that letter in French????????? You’d think the story would at least mention that.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 12:36pmMaybe it’s just a file photo, huh?
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:10amI‘m glad everybody’s so positive about this cute story. Irregardless, Thank you Blaze for posting it. I want to have penmanship like this person does.
Report Post »PilgrimMO
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:47amCranberry, for your edification, there is no such word as “irregardless”. Look it up.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 12:58pmCan’t tell you how many years it took me to stop using that word and use irrespective instead. lol
Definitely agree with you about that penmenship. I envy anyone that can write like this. Thank God for computers. :)
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 8:56amoh so lovey dovey. but contrast to that, you see govt incompetence to say the least.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 10:14amLook at the beautiful penmanship. Now imagine it in the stick letters now taught in school. In another 10 years kids will not be able to write at all. Just type. My granddaughter was scolded by her teacher for using the cursive I had taught he. Seems the teacher could not read it even though it was easily read by any one that knew cursive. The teacher actually did not know the cursive letters.
Report Post »honestynow
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:00amJust read where one state will no longer be teaching cursive (Indiana?). What a shame. Am wondering how these kids will be able to read it if they’re not taught to write it.
Report Post »theye
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 8:33amLove lost and lost at love. The governent loses more than just our money.
Report Post »holy ghostbuster
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 7:03amIf that was FedEx or UPS handling the letter, someone would get fired. Because it is the government, someone will get promoted.
Report Post »jenniferakagigi
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 6:37ammy great grand parents have a story of a lost love letter stating that my gr grandmother was interested in her suitor and he could call on her next time in Boston…the letter was mailed a year later…and the rest is history…in the late 1800s!
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 7:45amYeah, it’s a crime. And it is also a crime to run the Postal Service the way it is being run, but that’s not a factor … look the other way now.
Report Post »AmericanWomanFirst
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 6:02amIs’t that sweet? The goverment can’t even run the postal service and yet they want to run our healthcare….not.
Report Post »ssortors
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 5:21amso let me get this straight.. they get a letter from the US post office… then open a letter not addressed to them and then post it online? Isn’t it a crime to open other peoples mail?
Report Post »christianUSA
Posted on July 15, 2011 at 4:51amNew meaning of snail mail; but really since it was not delivered to addressed person it still lost in a sense.
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