Love's labors lost and found

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Written by DBN on 5/8/2025

Old paper and tender lives

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Something cute I found this afternoon while digging through a luggage chest I bought at an estate sale - what appears to be a love letter, or perhaps the draft of one, or the beginning of a wedding vow, with accompanying doodle of the presumed beloved (or lover?).

The front of a 8" x 5" index card with a doodle of a person, with the accompanying text "my curly burly love" and "gezundheit"

There's no date anywhere, but I'm guessing late 80s or early 90s based on other documents I found in the chest.

The back of a 8" x 5" index card with cursive text, transcription in the article below.

The text, as best I can tell:

my love my love with the burly curly crop ha
earl you earl
my husband how i believe in our union
our love feels like it will be g
our love
the sense of you + i

there is true in 'you + i'
sense in being together
the only right sense i see for me
is to always to be together with thee.
Treasures feeling sensing the adventures touching , tasting , testing
together, touching tasting testing a world of adventure good days
my love ,
is ours our days will begood days we'll see.

I'm glad I found this little expression of love, tucked away, likely long forgotten, frozen in time. I hope their lives were as wonderful as they wanted them to be.
DBN