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Cathy Chavez Miller's avatar

Thank you Jean for sharing your parents communications through their intimate letter writings. They both had hope for better times together tempered by their long separations as your father's Merchant Marine work took him far away. I appreciate your writing about "the bootstrap mythology" regarding your parents trials in buying a 1950s Santa Cruz home. Their story would make a great movie.

Cathy

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Edward M Corpus's avatar

Very interesting. You're giving me ideas to crosscheck with the research I've done on my parents in approximately the same time period on opposite ends of this country in NY. I was born in the Philippines in September 1953 but was in NY a year and a half later. My mother was a nurse, too, and working then.

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