When the postman came to Angelina Gonsalves two weeks before Christmas, he asked her, "Did your husband serve?"
"Yes, he did," she said.
"I think I have a letter for you," replied the postman.
"Really?" Asked Gonsalves.
Because Gonsalves is 89, her husband has been dead for six years. He had served - albeit in World War II.
The letter the postman gave her was almost 76 years old.
Gonsalves' late husband, John Gonsalves, had written it to his mother in Bad Orb - on St. Nicholas Day in December 1945. Now the letter turned up in a distribution center of the US Post Office in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania, as the US television station »WFXT- TV «reports that visited Angelina Gonsalves.
"The food is pretty lousy most of the time."
“Dear Mama,” Gonsalves had written, “I received another letter from you today and I was pleased to hear that everything is fine with you.
As for me, I'm fine and I'm doing fine.
But the food is pretty lousy most of the time. "
He had signed: “Love and kisses, your son Johnny.
I hope we'll see each other again soon. "
John Gonsalves died in 2015, his mother is also dead. However, the Post found Angelina Gonsalves to be a relative and delivered the letter.
The couple had met five years after Gonsalves sent the letter.
They were married for 61 years and raised five sons.
"As if he had come back to me"
Attached to her husband's letter was another one of the staff at the US Postal Service who had located Gonsalves.
You wrote "Delivering the letter was extremely important to us."
After the family received the letter, they called the post office to say thank you.
"It's like he's come back to me," said Gonsalves "WFXT-TV".
"It was amazing."
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