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March 26, 1973 letter from Koleszar Sr. and Jr. - page 1

Košice March 26, 1973
Our dear little Pista (Steve), little Beverly, and your beloved family,
We received your letter and photographs. All of you look nice and beautiful. First things first, we wish the newlywed couples Dani and his wife and little Terez and her husband happy married lives together. May God bless them aIl. And that through the big and long sea of life their ship will never ever crash into a reef, but rather they should be loving and understanding toward each other. From the bottom of our heart we wish the new couples the elder and younger Kolesar family and Jucika’s parents and the Dudas family in/on the photographs I kissed all of you all over, and I just cried so much, because I would have liked to see all of you on the wedding day, but of course this was not possible. Sweet little Pista and little Beverly, the death of your mother left deep wounds in us. You loved her so much. But now that aunt Ilon wrote us and said that her husband uncle Gyula died, we all felt as if the world was collapsing around us. Who will write us such a love-filled letter now? Little Pista, you will take over for him, right? May the Lord God give your mother, our sweet little Maris and (her) brother-in-law Bellus Gyula eternal tranquility and may the earth be easy. Peace and Blessings be upon their ashes. Poor aunt Ilon, I really feel sorry for her, because it is such an ordeal when someone loses their life companion. Unfortunately, that’s the way life goes, eventually we all must die. We hope that you will send pictures of uncle Gyula’s funeral. In January and February I, uncle Gyula, and Gyuszi’s family got sick. There was some kind of fever epidemic here. Uncle Gyula is 82 years old and I am 70. Both of us got really weak, we aren’t that strong anymore. Dear little Pista and little Beverly, we know that it is big thing to come to Europe, you just had two weddings, your mother’s funeral, uncle Gyula’s funeral, this all