SelinaK

Dear mother and father, I don’t know where to start. I’ve been seeing so much, people who stand in line on Ellis Island, just waiting to hear if the will have the opportunity to enter the country of fortune. People who stand in line are being marked. It is just sad. But I was lucky, I was sent to the Midwest, and I’m not the only Norwegian here. I met a big family from Bergen who have treated me so nice, and I am so grateful to them. They let me stay with them to I can settle down myself. I have plans, and if only you were here. Everything would have been so much better. I miss you so much, mother. But someday, when I marry a man, I will take a photograph that I will send you. Things would have been so much better if you could move over here, but I understand. I’m a bit worried about the winter, but on the other side I don’t think the winter is so different from the winters in Norway, or I hope. I look forward to celebrating Christmas, hopefully with a family over here. This is it for now. Hope to hear from you. Love, Selina.

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Dear Caroline, I hope you are doing fine back home. Hope that it is not to long before the civil war is over, and I don't think that it is to long before the war is over. Yesterday I was in the battlefront. I did see my men died, but we stay strong and think of the family back home. It is hard but we are well trained so don't you worry about me. Do you have any news to me? I'm corious you see. Is see dead people everyday, and it is hard but as I've been telling you; I'm satying strong.e I lost my good friend and soldier, John. He was my best friend and I miss him so much. I hope you are doing fine, Caroline. Looking forward to coming back home again. Love from your husband, Peter.