While cleaning out her parents' basement, Amy stumbled upon a box containing billets-doux written by her dad to his high-school sweetheart-her mom.

在清理她父母的地下室时，艾米偶然发现了一个装有情书的盒子，这封情书是她的父亲写给他高中的恋人——她的妈妈的。

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Each day, he sent to her house, on Dupont Circle, a packet of billets-doux and state documents.

NEWYORKER: State of the Union

Young lovers in Victorian England, forbidden to express their affection in public and fearful that strict parents would intercept their billets-doux, sent coded messages through the personal columns in newspapers.

FORBES: I've got a secret