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Mother and daughter reading a book in bed
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What His Daughter Heard for the First Time

Bill and Bernadean's daughter, Melinda Gale, read the letter aloud to her own daughter the night before telling her story. She said it revealed what she called "the true depth" of her parents' love — something she and her siblings had always sensed growing up, but rarely heard either of them say out loud.
Not every family gets a document like that, seventy years after the fact.