ISBN: 0-88739-291-1
240 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 12/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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All My Love
Hope Gustav
Travel fifty years back to a more innocent time, in the midwest before the Korean War. Young Wisconsin schoolteacher Hope Brown meets handsome Alfred Gustav in a Norwegian church choir and they fall madly in love. It's real. It's forever. And it's burdened when Alfred has to leave their new hearth and home for military service in the Korean War. This book is mainly the letters between Alfred overseas in the Army and Hope back in the States. Surely there could be no more salient example than Hope and Alfred of absence making the heart grow fonder.
"While I was up at B Company, there was a fellow that had only been there a few days. He shot himself in the head with an M1 rifle. I guess he thought he'd get it over quickly. "I sure do miss your loving. I'd like to be back with you having a wonderful time. I just want to feel you in my arms again, hold you tight and never let you go."
"Today we got a Sears Christmas Book, I also got my order: a blouse, some Christmas cards, a birthday present for you, and an elastic cap to wear in bed to keep my curlers in. I'm going to save that until we are together.
"Good night, darling. I wish you were here so I could hug you, kiss you, and keep you forever close to me."
Bio: HOPE GUSTAV is a housewife and mother of six children, grandmother of eight, and great-grandmother of three. She continues to write, and, oh yes, has been married for fifty years and counting.
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