Karl Gussow’s Old Man’s Treasure (1876) is a masterpiece of emotion and detail. The bond between the man and his kitten is pure gold.
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✉️"Mother, I know you are lighting candles for me. I wish I could write you again, but the war doesn’t allow wishes. If I do not return, remember me as I was before the uniform,laughing, barefoot in the summer fields." — A letter discovered decades later in a trench in France.💔🥀