| Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET 30 Months Letter Makes a Christmas in August By BILLY ROSE This morning's batch of mail included the following from a man in Great L. Ll Dear Billy As you probably noticed in the papers one day last August a boy named Henry Turrill found a sack of undelivered mail in the rear of a junked automobile on the outskirts of Great Neck It consisted mostly of Christmas cards which had been mailed in and the post after apologizing for the to deliver them the next one of the pieces of mail r was to me a letter from my postmarked and dated December 1947 But what was in that letter won't sense to you unless 1 first tell you some- V- Wt tinny myself B Shortly alter 1 was married in JB the draft boards be- gan taking anything with two and after ten months in Texas I was put on a boat and shipped off to that swamp called By the time I got the shooting was so I guess y was better off than most of the but lt was a dull and muddy sort of arid I was plenty glad when 1 was shipped back and discharged in a a a IT WAS TWO DAYS before Christmas when I arrived In Great and you imagine how let down I felt when I found that my wife wasn't there waiting for there was a note on the table saying her mother wasn't feeling and she had gone to She'd be bark in a few d.-ys 1 that if everything was all of wasn't the homecoming I'd been figuring on and I took it pretty But realizing there was nothing I could do about it her mother didn't even have a phone I sent her a Merry Christmas wire and told her to hurry back as soon as she It wasn't until after New that my wife showed That in and in th Past years a lot things happened to us j pretty good and most of th g paid off on our None of which come about if th litter my mt from Cleveland had arrived on In you she confessed there had been another man while I'd been away nobody she cared anything just someone who had happened along while she lonely and She sold if I didn't want her to tome back to write and say 1 o and she'd but If she didn't hear from me she'd figure I had forgiven her and would return and try to make it up to a WHEN THE MAILMAN handed me this letter a couple of weeks I wondered what the heck was in so I ripped it open and read it right there on the And corny as lt all the time I was reading it I could hear the vacuum going Inside and my son making a racket in his upstairs Chances had I gotten this letter when I was fresh out of the army and plenty I would have called my wife every dirty name and busted up our marriage as fast as the law would But standing there on the porch I thought of the three good years we'd had together and the 30 coming up to mention the fact that I hadn't always been a saint I put the letter In my and that night after work went fo a jewelry store and made a down-payment on one of those wristwatches with little red When I handed present to my missus after 1 this Christmas in I and then I told her I hod finally gotten ber letter and bow happy wa it bad come 30 months Since then we have talked a lot about this lucky and today we decided there's a lesson in the story which might help a lot of other couples who feel like busting their marriages the first time something goes If you run this letter in your we'd appreciate of if you didn't use our real |
