The letters were tucked in a small attic closet she never knew existed.
She peered into the dusty space. “I saw a bunch of junk,” said Prillaman, 40, who lives with her rescue dog, Alfie.— most of which were handwritten in the 1950s. Many of them started the same way: “Hi honey.”
“It was clear that I needed to find the family and get them back to them,” Prillaman said. That evening, she solicited the help of Internet sleuthsAdvertisement“Even if the two writing one another are no longer with us, I’d love to find the family to pass them on,” Prillaman wrote. “I know I’d cherish these if these were my grandparents corresponding.”
His grandparents, Betty McGhee Long and Vance Long, met at John Marshall High School in Richmond, married in 1955 and had one son together, as well as two grandsons, Dalton and Bodhie Long — both of whom now live in Portland, Ore., worked for Reynolds Metals Company for 35 years, was the president of the American Business Women’s Association and was one of the founders of the Women’s Bank of Richmond.
“The fact that we didn’t find them before Anna was kind of crazy,” Bodhie said of the letters. “They were just sitting in our attic the entire time we were growing up and we had no idea.” That’s why Prillaman was adamant about reuniting the family with the long-lost heirlooms. “Most of us don’t know the courtship story of our grandparents. It’s just not information we’re privy to,” she said.
“I’m so darn tired and can hardly hold my eyes open, but maybe I can last long enough to scribble down a few lines to the sweetest girl in the world,” one letter read.“I do love you, Honey, with all my heart,” Vance wrote in another letter. “I am just waiting until I can hold you close again and have that wonderful feeling of walking on a cloud return.”“I miss you something awful, Betty,” the note continued. “All my love, Vance.
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