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By Jack Joseph Smith

Dear Liza When I meet your grandma at the end of nineteen sixty four; she asked me if I had a child in the South Seas, and I said yes, the chances are good for that. Your Grandma was love at first sight for me. She was all that I had ever imagined for a mother in law. I mean I knew about that part. Dating Italian girls in the fifties. Mom's were the big thing. All the great literature I know is with the young; so let me stay there. It is hard to make judgement about the kind of love you have when you are young when you are old, and that will bE thE SAME WhEN YOU diE.

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Addressing Liza, the writer recalls a conversation with her grandmother, attraction to her as a mother-in-law and the difficulty of judging youthful love from old age.

The writer connects family recollection with a wish to remain with the young in literature, then extends the difficulty of judging love to death. The mention of a possible child in the South Seas remains a personal claim within the letter.

Claude

A typed letter beginning 'Dear Liza' about meeting 'your grandma at the end of nineteen / sixty four'. The writer says 'Your Grandma was love at first sight for me' and ends in handwriting 'that will bE thE SAME / WhEN YOU diE.'

The letter steps out of the 1964 narrative into a family voice and claims that young love keeps its value into old age. The letter's speaker is treated as a literary voice, not as verified family history.