Letters which made their way from Cherryville to Clover and from Clover to Cherryville.
You see, neither Harry nor Mamie had a telephone in their respective homes.
Neither had a car.
And yet a romance, born of a chance encounter in the downtown Gastonia bus station, blossomed and grew.
About that bus station encounter.
Mamie dropped a coin on the floor.
Harry, a gentleman, retrieved it for her but also asked for her name and her address. She was an attractive girl, said Harry of young Mamie. So of course, I asked her those things.
Did I mention the year this meeting occurred was 1947? A time when most homes did not have telephones, when no homes in Gaston County had televisions (WBTV would not go on the air for another two years), and when the Internet would have been but an unfathomable bit of science fiction.