And finally… Century old love letters discovered at construction site
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A series of love letters written more than a hundred years ago have been discovered by construction workers in the rubble of an old staircase.
The notes, one of which is stamped June 11, 1918, were found inside the Paris building in Winnipeg, Canada.
Addressed to a woman named Becky Rusoff in Winnipeg from someone in Halifax named ‘Soko’, the author writes “it’s a funny thing this love business. It has wrecked this calm exterior I have built around me. It’s even painful. I understand the bride’s tears at a wedding.”
In another letter, Soko tells Becky he got a photo of himself taken so he could send it to her. “So this is me,” Soko writes. “My God! How the truth hurts. I feel desperate enough to grow a moustache.”
Sonya Berthin, general manager for the building management company McCor Management, told CTV News Winnipeg: “Apparently they were just sitting as a group together, not in any box or anything. Everything was quite dusty.”
Berthin hopes someone can solve that mystery. “I think it would be nice if we could find the rightful owners, and pass it on so everyone can kind of just go down memory lane.”
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