Years ago, when cellphones were not yet created, people’s means of communication are letters sent through mails. That manner of sending messages to your loved ones is as slow as a snail – and a recent discovery of post cards dated more than four decades ago proves it.
Susan Heifetz, from New York, was mystified when she received a call from a man living in her for former home in Brooklyn.
The man told her that she had a letter postmarked June 26, 1969, waiting for her and she knew it was from her deceased parents as “lipstick kiss’ was identified on the back of the envelope.
“At which point he said to me on the back of the envelope is a lipstick mark – and at that point I started to cry. That was my mother’s thing at that time – to seal it with a kiss,” she said.
Several days later, she received another birthday card from her brother also 45 years later. The cards were supposed to be sent for the 64-year-old retired NYPD employee’s 19th birthday.
Then came another letter from a certain Sergeant Mark Wolf, her then G.I. boyfriend who was keeping her up to date with while he’s battling with the Viet Cong in Saigon.
Ms. Heifetz said had been struggling with a decision to move closer to her brother in Las Vegas for a reason that she didn’t want to leave her parents who had been entombed in Brooklyn.
“I felt like this was a stamp of approval. Like, [they were telling me] “We’ll always be in your hearts and soul. We found you 45 years later.”
She has now put her home up for sale and plans to go with her brother to Las Vegas where she will enjoy her retirement. But the answer to where her letters have gone still remains a mystery.