ABSTRACT
As children, my brothers and I would get excited when my father came home from the store announcing the arrival of a letter from abroad. Some of our relatives lived in Russia and a few others in America. When my father would say, “We got a letter today!”, one of us would ask, “From whom?” Another brother would wonder, “How long did it take to get here?” My father would respond after looking at the date. Someone else would ask, “How did it come?” Again my father would look at the envelope and say by water, air, or land. The first time he responded, “By water,” I took the envelope and looked at it. IT WAS DRY! I opened it, looked carefully at the writing—no indication of it being in water!
