that's life!

75 years wed We fell in love through letters

Looking up from my desk, I saw a handsome sailor walk into my office. With his lovely blue eyes and wavy blond hair he took my breath away.

Aged 16, I was working as a clerk for an insurance company.

It was 1944 and the good-looking man’s name was James, but everyone called him Jim.

He’d worked for the same insurance firm before joining the Royal Australian Navy two and a half years earlier. He was here to ask his old colleagues to come to his 21st birthday party.

Then he turned

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