No friends nor family left here, there comes that time in our lives ( Archived) (1)

Jun 10, 2018 2:50 PM CST No friends nor family left here, there comes that time in our lives
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No friends nor family left here.
We are at the age 80-84 when most of our friends and family are gone.
My husband. I will call him Cor, just received a letter from Holland, a childhood friend
was now in a care home, had send him a card. Cor was over the moon, so happy.
He had not heard from this friend for many years but he had send a letter to someone else in his old town,
never heard a reply, but we can now see that this person must have send his letter on to others.
I had told Cor, honey some people don’t respond because you have been gone for so many years and
they are left wondering. why does this guy still care?
Thing is Cor does care and cares a lot.
His home village has printed a booklet about the past and somehow Cor got hold of a copy.
He was able to give details that stunned the people, details they did not even know about.
This booklet cost a lot of money to print but because Cor was able to add so much to this booklet, it is
send free to him, here in Canada. It comes out 4 times a year and still Cor can add to it.................
Main reason for all this is, that his village is in walking distance to Germany and Cor saw and observed a lot of things.
His upbringing in this village was very painful and dramatic.
His sister and he, where taken in by a couple, to be uses and abused, mentally and physically. (Long story but won’t tell more here)
I have now two sisters left in Holland and know we will never see each other again.
Cor still has his sister in Holland and knows he won’t see her ever again either...............
We talk about the past a lot because Cor needs too it helps him...............
He former spouse did not understand Dutch, came from a very different back ground.
He is very happy now that he can talk to me because I came from the same country and same background.
His dialect is different than mine but amazingly, he can read and understand mine and I can understand most of his
Of course we both can talk in the main Dutch language, important in our case for sure
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