Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET 39 30 months late letter makes fifi IVI altes a christmas in by BILLY ROSE this mornings batell batch of mall mail included the following from a roan man in great nock neck L I 1 dear billy rose As you probably noticed in the papers one day last august a boy named henry turrill found a sack of undelivered mail I 1 in n the rear of a junked bunked automobile on the outskirts of great neck it consisted mostly of christmas cards which had been mailed in december 1817 1947 and the post after apologizing for the delay promised to deliver them ue tle next day one of pieces ol of mall mail was addres addressed sd to me mea a letter from my wife postmarked cleveland ohio and ana dated de cember cem berlO 19 1947 1047 but what was in that letter wont make sense to you unless 3 ma 4 11 1 I first tell you some 1 R thing about myself 41 shortly after I 1 was married in ml the draft boards began taking anything with two legs and silly hilly hose after ten months in texas I 1 was put on a boat and shipped oft off to that swamp called okinawa by the time I 1 got there the shooting was over so I 1 guess 7 i was better off than most of the boys but it was a dull and muddy sort of life and I 1 was plenty glad when I 1 was shipped back and discharged in 47 IT WAS TWO DAYS before christmas when I 1 arrived in great neck and you can imagine how let down I 1 felt when I 1 found that my wife there waiting tor for me instead there was a no note e on the table saying her mother feeling well and she had gone to cleveland shed shad be back in a few days that Is 13 it everything was au all right this of course the homecoming I 1 id been figuring on and I 1 took it pretty hard but realizing there was nothing I 1 cowd could do about it her mother even have a phone I 1 sent tier her a merry christmas wire and told her to hurry back as soon as she could it until after new years however that my wife showed up that thai was in 47 and in the past three years a lot lof ol of files things thing bate happened to 10 us 4 41 son a pretty firstly good job and most ol of the go ft paid oil off on our houst bouss nove nans 0 ol 01 which would have come coma about aboul if 0 me tell my ly avile tvile sent mf me irom from cleveland had arrived on OH sched in it you see sho she confessed therl there had been another man while id been away nobody she cared anything about just someone who had happened along while she was lonely and miserable she said it I 1 want her to come comb back to wrife and say so and shed understand but it if she hear from me shed figure I 1 had forgiven her and would return riburn and try to make it up to me WHEN THE MAILMAN handed me ma this three year old letter a couple of weeks ago ag 0 1 I wondered what the heck was in it so I 1 ripped it open and read it right there 0 on n the porch and corny as it sounds all the time I 1 was reading 9 it I 1 could hear the vacuum going inside and my son making a rocket racket in his upstairs bedroom chances are had I 1 gotten this letter when I 1 was fresh out of the army rind and plenty lumpy jumpy I 1 would have called my wife every dirty name and busted up our marriage as fast as the law would allow but standing there on the porch I 1 thought of the three good years w wed od had together and the 30 more maybe coming up not to mention the fact that I 1 always been a saint myself so I 1 put the letter in my pocket and that night after work went to a jewelry store and made a down payment on one of those wristwatches with little red i stones when I 1 handed the present to so my missus after dinner she be niini wilts this christmas Chri in august exactly baby I 1 said and ami abo I 1 told MU her I 1 had finally gotten het her letter andhor how hup hap py fy I 1 wa tva it is had come 30 months late since then we have talked a tot lot about this lucky accident end nd today we decided theres a lesson in the story which might help a lot of other couples couple s who feel like busting the first time something goes wrong it 0 bouvin this thi letter in fix your column wed ampre elate it of course cour seIf if you use our real names name a |