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Mother Teresa has said:
As I walked home one freezing day, 1 stumbled on a wal-let someone had lost in the street. I picked it up and looked inside to find some identification so I could call the owner. But the wallet contained only three dollars and a crumpled letter that looked as if it had been in there for years.
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legible on it was the return address. I started to open the letter, hoping to find some clue. Then I saw the date-line?924. The letter had been written almost sixty years earlier.
It was written in a beautiful feminine handwriting, on powder-blue stationery with a little flower in the left-hand corner. It was a "Dear John" letter that told the recipient, whose name appeared to be Michael that the writer could not see him any more because her mother forbade it
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