THE STORY OF A DOLL WHO SURVIVED MORE THAN 70 YEARS

If a doll brought back from the war in Italy can serve, generations later, as reminder of the soldier who fought there, how much more meaningful the soldier’s letters home to his wife!

Franca probably didn’t look quite that good when Dad brought her home.  And in the 70+ years of her existence, as she was passed from me to my daughter, Catherine, and from her to my granddaughter, Sophie, she’s had some unfortunate mishaps and has been involved in some pretty rough play, some of which involved a young brother.  Suffice it to say that in order to look as good as she does today, she’s had to have “work” done.  But Franca remains for me an important souvenir not only of World War II, a watershed moment in world history, but also of an international encounter that would alter the life of one American soldier.  That soldier was my father.

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