He wrote a chatty letter to his wife.

他给妻子写了封拉家常的信。

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To the first man in the address book, the chef had written a typed letter: “Am in trouble and have fled the city . . . Tell my dear wife I am safe, but for her safety do not tell her where I am . . .

厨师给通讯簿里的第一个人去了封打印信：“我现在碰到点麻烦，从城里逃了出来。。。 告诉我亲爱的妻子我平安无事，但是为了她的安全不能告诉她我在哪。。。

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A love letter to a US college student from the girlfriend who was to become his wife is finally on its way to him - 53 years after it was written in 1958.

在53年之后，一封写于1958年的情书终于即将到达收信人的手中。那时他是一名美国大学生，而写信人是他的女友，不久成为了他的妻子。

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And the night before he was officially commissioned as Commander-in-Chief, before he left to lead thousands of men, before he began to chart the course of freedom for our country and our world, Washington sat down to draft a letter to his wife, Martha.

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One of the miners, Esteban Rojas, sent a letter to his wife soon after the men were discovered alive, asking her to renew their vows in a church ceremony.

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It starts with the words of a writer, Jim Foley, who, in a cottage on the soft and airy west coast of Ireland, is drafting a long love letter to his dead wife, Kate.

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