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As I sit here belowdecks, hts are of you and how much I hated to leave you This ship takes me far away from you and Marian, away to another world that see is knowing that one day this ill be over and, God willing, I will be able to return to your side

She looked up and aze “He did love her”

“Did you think he didn’t?”

She shrugged “I don’t know A few things people have said A feeling But this letter … it ritten by a man who loved her very much”

She looked down and continued reading, her voice soft

I knoe can’t be together I kno iht now I have a job to do and so do you But that doesn’t stopto be with you again You are in my every breath, and in my dreams I hold you in my ar

Stay strong, ain Until then,

Always yours,

Kristian

Abby looked up at Tom in confusion “Kristian? Who on earth is Kristian?”

Tom looked down at the letter and back into her eyes “Kristian,” he said quietly, “is probably the reason this was hidden under the floor”

“Edith was having an affair”

“Looks like”

“But hom? Who was Kristian?”

“Maybe the rest of the letters will tell you”