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Would you read your grandparent's love letters?

Today we found a stack of love letters my grandfather wore to my grandmother in 1931. They were living apart for work.

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Yes, my father found the letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother when they were courting, in the 1920s. They were in the idiomatic Creole that people spoke then.

SweetMae · 70-79, F

@bijouxbroussard Those must have been such a treasure. Could you read them?

bijouxbroussard · F

@SweetMae With some work. Pop translated most of them for me. They were surprisingly formal. That's when I found out it was an arranged marriage.

SweetMae · 70-79, F

@bijouxbroussard Oh wow! I guess that was common in some families.