This book is about surviving all the changes that took place in my life and in the World during the 1960s to 1990s . I had always written letters because when I was young that was the only way to communicate. Telephones were rare and calls were expensive. Invitations, condolences, thank you notes and love letters were all written.

After I learned to type I worked in an office and every letter of course had to have a carbon copy. Somehow this stuck and when I married and started moving around I always made carbon copies of my letters.

In the beginning I wrote to my parents then my sister and...