He found the shoebox when he was moving out of the family apartment.
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It was in a storage closet at the back of his old room. He had not opened it in fifteen years.
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He sat on the floor of the empty apartment with the box on his knees and opened it.
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The letters were exactly as he had left them. Twelve letters in blue ink on lined notebook paper, all of them in the order she had sent them.
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He read the first one on the floor of the apartment.
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He read the second one the next morning.
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He read all twelve over three days.
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Then he put them back in the box and closed it and put the box in the back of the moving van and took it to the new apartment and put it in the closet and did not open it again.20Please respect copyright.PENANAsWfbg18tJ1


