Soulmates & Strangers

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Soulmates & Strangers is written by Judith Umlas and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1639726969 (ISBN 10) and 9781639726967 (ISBN 13).

Before email or Facetime, when snail mail was the only way to communicate across oceans, the author's mother and her French pen pal created a family legacy. Their writings to one another, starting when they were teenagers and ending in their 80's, preserve a precious time in the past, while inspiring generations of the future.This is the inspiring opening of the book that author Judith Umlas wrote, based on the packet of letters given to her by her mother's French pen pal - letters that were written by her mother, between the ages of 15 - 27. In this moving memoir, Umlas describes her reaction to the details of many of the letters and expresses her profound gratitude to her mother's pen pal, who gave them to her as part of her own and her mother's legacy.Few grown women have the good fortune and the honor of getting to know their mothers in the way Judith gets to know hers, as a young girl from the age of 15 and on. She expresses her fascination at this sparkling, undiscovered (to her) person, as she learns of her mother's deepest feelings, her passions and interests -- including boxing and baseball! Never had Judith gotten any inkling of these while her mother was alive, and she relates with awe, poignancy and regret the emotional impact of all of these discoveries.