Dear Queenie,
Both of my parents are dead and us children have put the family home up for sale. While cleaning things out I discovered a box of love letters between them that they wrote each other during the time they were apart at different universities.
Queenie, should I keep these letters or destroy them to preserve my parents’ privacy?—Undecided daughter
Dear Undecided,
If you feel it would be an intrusion on your parents’ privacy do not read the letters, but by all means keep them. They are a valuable part of your family’s history and one day their grandchildren (or even yours) will want to know more about the couple who wrote them. When that time comes, will those descendants even understand what a letter was? Or will all their correspondence be lost somewhere in cyberspace?
