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b. 1964
Physician
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About
Marisol began scanning the letters in 1998 and has not stopped since. She is the reason this archive exists in a form her grandchildren can open.
Matching submissions are combined into one memory, with each contributor's wording, name and date kept beside it. There's no limit on how many people can add to Marisol Reyes's page.
“Marisol scanned every card, including the ones with my mother's flour on them.”
Eleanor Grace Whitfield· 8 March 2015
“She rescued the recipes off index cards before the ink faded past reading.”
Aaron Reyes· 24 December 2018
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“He wrote it in the hospital corridor the night she was born and sang it before dawn.”
Marisol Reyes· 3 September 2016
“Uncle Aaron still sings it to me. It has my name in the second line.”
Junie Reyes· 1 February 2025
About Eleanor Grace Whitfield
“Eleven volumes, in pencil, with a pressed petal taped beside almost every entry.”
Marisol Reyes· 2 May 2024
“She wrote the weather first and her feelings second, and somehow you learned both.”
Aaron Reyes· 4 May 2024
About Thomas Reyes
“He drew our house on the back of the library blueprint the day we met.”
Eleanor Grace Whitfield· 30 October 2019
“The sketch is framed in the hall. You can still read the blueprint through the paper.”
Marisol Reyes· 11 January 2020
About Junie Reyes
“Four generations wrote to her before she could read. It opens on her eighteenth birthday.”
Marisol Reyes· 20 November 2016
“I sealed mine last. It is the only letter of mine she has not yet read.”
Eleanor Grace Whitfield· 5 January 2017
About Samuel Whitfield
“He numbered every letter so we would know if one was lost at sea. Not one was.”
Eleanor Grace Whitfield· 14 March 1998
“Two hundred and twelve letters home, each one numbered in the top corner in pencil.”
Marisol Reyes· 2 November 2004
“I read them all in one night when I was nineteen. They still smell of salt.”
Aaron Reyes· 9 June 2016
About Josiah Whitfield
“Every hull he laid carried J.W. burned into the keel, where only the water would see it.”
Samuel Whitfield· 12 September 1954
“A shrimper in Darien showed me the mark on a boat still working in 1998.”
Marisol Reyes· 19 July 2011
About Ruth Adair
“She hung them in order down the hall and could name every child in every frame.”
Eleanor Grace Whitfield· 21 August 1999
“Forty-one photographs, one per year, straightened every Sunday morning.”
Marisol Reyes· 18 February 2007
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