I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
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Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. He said,
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"Boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
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Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but I loved your Grandma so."
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We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
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Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
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But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead of her
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I found this letter, and this is what it said:
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If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
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I'll meet you when my chores are through;
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I don't know how long I'll be.
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But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
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And between now and then, till I see you again,
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I'll be loving you. Love, me.
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I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away,
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In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray.
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I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
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But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.
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If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
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I'll meet you when my chores are through;
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I don't know how long I'll be.
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But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
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And between now and then, till I see you again,
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I'll be loving you. Love, me.
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Between now and then, till I see you again,
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I'll be loving you. Love, me.
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Love, Me
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Collin Raye |