Did Not See It - But Should Have

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My W dropped off the stuff she wants me to sell and she also dropped off some picture albums and all my letters I had written to her over the years.

During my 23+ years in the military I deployed a few times and I spent a year in Korea without my W and D. I wrote a lot of letters when I was gone. This was before email and the Internet was just getting started mainstream.

She called me early this morning to let me know she dropped everything off and to let me know about the letters. She wanted to warn me about them in case our D rummaged through them because some of the letters were of the "risque" type.

During our brief talk she mentioned how nice the yard looked and how the ferns looked pretty hanging around the porch. Her selective memory kicked in then when she said she stopped buying the ferns because I always yelled at her for spending the money on stuff we didn't need. I never yelled at her for that because I liked the ferns and I never complained about spending money on the yard because it was money that did some good. I only complained about spending money when it was for dumb stuff (think As Seen on TV crap). I rolled my eyes and kept quiet. I guess in her eyes all I ever did is yell at her.

As I said she dropped off all the letters I wrote to her over the years. Most of them are 15+ years old. They were in a large box and I honestly didn't know she kept them. I briefly thumbed through them and I got a little mad and sad. I waited until I got to work and texted her that it looks as if she was trying to erase all of our history together. She replied she wasn't trying to erase history. She didn't want to throw them away because they are too painful for her. She said she tried to read them but all she does is cry, so she thought I would like them.

That did make me feel a little better. I was going to shred them or burn them, but now I will put them in storage and decide what to do with them another day, because I sure as hell don't want to read them anytime soon.