Deborah
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The storage room is a room in Deborah's Bronx apartment.
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It's where expired vitamins and broken kitchen appliances collect.
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While cleaning it out, her daughter Lee saw something that caught her eye.
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And she walked out of the storage room with a cardboard box.
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Written across the top of the box were Deborah's initials.
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And beside those initials, underlined in black ink, were the words, Go Through.
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When Deborah lifted the lid, she uncovered something she'd stashed away long ago and had never gone through.
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The letters, tied up in ribboned bundles, were from Deborah's first love, a man named Jerry Robbins.
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Jerry was killed in World War II on Christmas Eve, 1944.
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My future was shredded, as well as the man that I loved.