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Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 Seventy-two years ago, a love letter that was meant to be delivered to a sailor based in Trinidad got lost. It has now been delivered to the rightful owner. Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 The letter, postmarked May 1945, was written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, Rolf Christoffersen, who was a sailor at the time in the Norwegian Navy based in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago.. Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 Melissa Fahy and her father found the letter in a gap under the stairs while renovating her Westfield, New Jersey home.. They decided to try reaching out to the family and got into contact with the son of Christoffersen who lives in California and sent it to them who was shocked that Fahy reached out to them  8) Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 The son read the letter to his 96-year-old father. Virginia died six years ago this weekend. Virginia wrote: “I love you Rolf, as I love the warm sun, and that is what you are to my life, the sun about which everything else revolves for me.” Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 “In a way, I guess it’s his wife coming back and making her memory alive again,” Fahy said, she also said she though it was so sweet and admired the love Virginia had for her husband. [img alt=:-*]http://cricketwindies.com/Smileys/forum/love.png[/img]. Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 "It's Mother's Day and reading her words reminded me just what a wonderful person she was and how much she loved us" her son said, through tears.. Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - mapoui - 05-19-2017 fahy is tricky white people.....business people. deh lef' tricky and went to the states..house an lna' an' ting eh : good fuh dem Re: Only in Comess Land : 1945 - ketchim - 05-19-2017 [quote author=mapoui link=topic=109712.msg737121#msg737121 date=1495211796] fahy is tricky white people.....business people. [/quote] an run after dem Sailor in port ?  :-\