When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly. Kara Martinelli
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When we first open a book or a new piece of music, we don’t know what to expect. There is so much for us to look forward to and so many feelings we can’t explain. When I first opened my copy of The Girl with the Pearl Earring, I was immediately taken back to my childhood and the many times I had read it as a child. That was my first impression of it – a simple pleasure.

A thrill that I hadn’t felt in a long time. When I started writing the article on the book, however, I couldn’t stop thinking about Grandpa and Grandma and how they would have been able to see the legacy they were leaving behind.

Source: My Very Dearest Anna

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