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"April 18th...
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...1935.
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Dear Celie:
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I know you think I'm dead...
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...but I am not.
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I've been writing to
you over the years...
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...but Albert said you'd
never hear from me again...
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...and since I never heard
from you all this time...
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...l guess he was right.
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Now I only write at
Christmas and Easter...
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...hoping my letters get lost among
the Christmas and Easter greetings...
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...or that Albert get the holiday
spirit and have pity on us.
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There is so much to tell you...
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...l hardly know where to begin.
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And anyway, you probably
won't get this letter either.
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I am sure Albert is
still the only one...
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...to take the mail out of the box.
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But if this does not get through...
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...one thing I want you to know...
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...l love you...
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...and I'm not dead."
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"I love you and am not dead."
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"The lady you met in
town is named Corrine.
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Her husband name Samuel.
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Sanctified religious
and very good to me.
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They only sorrow in
the beginning was...
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...that they could
not have children.
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Then they say...
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Then they say...
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...God sent them Olivia...