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Paper trails
PAPER TRAILS: Old letters lost, found, loved again
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Sean Clancy
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Today at 3:17 a.m.
Workers at Goodwill in Cabot had a feeling that a metal lock box at the store had been donated by mistake.
Inside the silver container, which had a piece of masking tape stuck to it with the words Keep-Out-Privet, were hundreds of letters written by a woman named Mildred to her sweetie serving overseas in World War II.
The letters, most addressed to My Darling Husband and mailed almost daily from Olympia, Wash., spanned 1943-1944 and were neatly organized by month.
The box and letters were sent last month to Goodwill Industries of Arkansas headquarters in Little Rock, and the search began for the owner.