I was seven years old and I was writing a letter to my two cousins in Baltimore about my new doll - Sparkle Plenty. Tootsie and Carolyn's mother, Aunt Gertie, saved the letter and more than fifty years later sent it to me one Christmas. What a surprise it was. The paper is extremely thin and brittle, but fortunately I can preserve it for posterity with my digital camera and a scanner.

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