Letter Delivered 51 Years After Being Sent

2022-02-02

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  • A letter written to a 12-year old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent.
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  • Now in her 60s, Genovefa Klonovska said after being handed the letter, "I thought that someone was pranking me."
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  • A prank is a trick that is done as part of a joke.
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  • The letter included a handmade, colored rose and two paper dolls.
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  • It was sent to Klonovska by a young girl in Poland.
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  • They exchanged letters in what is known as a pen pal program - when people write letters to each other without actually meeting.
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  • The letter, together with 17 others, was discovered this past summer when a wall was taken down in a former post office in Vilnius.
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  • Jurgis Vilutis is the owner of the building.
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  • "The workers suggested we throw the old letters away, but I called the post office instead," Vilutis explained.
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  • "I'm so happy they got interested."
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  • The letters, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, were likely hidden by a postal worker after he searched them for money or valuables, Vilutis said.
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  • Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union then.
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  • The senders were family members or pen pals from places such as Australia, Poland, or Russia.
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  • Street names and their numbering have changed in Vilnius.
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  • Post office workers spent months looking for the people who were supposed to receive the letters - the recipients.
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  • Only five recipients were found. In several cases, children of dead recipients were handed a lost letter.
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  • Deimante Zebrauskaite, head of the customer experience department at Lithuania Post, said "We felt a moral duty to do this."
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  • Zebrauskaite added, "One lady compared the experience to receiving a message from a bottle thrown into sea.
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  • People were emotional. Some people felt they saw a part of daily life of their deceased parents."
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  • In the letter to Klonovska, sent from Koczary in Poland and stamped in 1970, a girl named Ewa complains buses no longer reach her village, forcing her to walk in -23 Degree Celsius cold.
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  • She also asks for pictures of actors.
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  • Now in her 60s, Klonovska has no memory of Ewa.
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  • She probably wrote Ewa after finding her address in an advertisement for pen-pals in a newspaper.
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  • Their relationship stopped after the letter was not delivered.
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  • "The loss was not life-changing," said Klonovska.
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  • She then asked, "What if they delivered a lost letter from a suitor to his love, and their wedding never happened?"
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  • I'm John Russell.
  • 1
  • A letter written to a 12-year old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent.
  • 2
  • Now in her 60s, Genovefa Klonovska said after being handed the letter, "I thought that someone was pranking me."
  • 3
  • A prank is a trick that is done as part of a joke.
  • 4
  • The letter included a handmade, colored rose and two paper dolls. It was sent to Klonovska by a young girl in Poland. They exchanged letters in what is known as a pen pal program - when people write letters to each other without actually meeting.
  • 5
  • The letter, together with 17 others, was discovered this past summer when a wall was taken down in a former post office in Vilnius.
  • 6
  • Jurgis Vilutis is the owner of the building.
  • 7
  • "The workers suggested we throw the old letters away, but I called the post office instead," Vilutis explained. "I'm so happy they got interested."
  • 8
  • The letters, from the late 1960s and early 1970s, were likely hidden by a postal worker after he searched them for money or valuables, Vilutis said.
  • 9
  • Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union then. The senders were family members or pen pals from places such as Australia, Poland, or Russia.
  • 10
  • Street names and their numbering have changed in Vilnius.
  • 11
  • Post office workers spent months looking for the people who were supposed to receive the letters - the recipients.
  • 12
  • Only five recipients were found. In several cases, children of dead recipients were handed a lost letter.
  • 13
  • Deimante Zebrauskaite, head of the customer experience department at Lithuania Post, said "We felt a moral duty to do this."
  • 14
  • Zebrauskaite added, "One lady compared the experience to receiving a message from a bottle thrown into sea. People were emotional. Some people felt they saw a part of daily life of their deceased parents."
  • 15
  • In the letter to Klonovska, sent from Koczary in Poland and stamped in 1970, a girl named Ewa complains buses no longer reach her village, forcing her to walk in -23 Degree Celsius cold. She also asks for pictures of actors.
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  • Now in her 60s, Klonovska has no memory of Ewa. She probably wrote Ewa after finding her address in an advertisement for pen-pals in a newspaper. Their relationship stopped after the letter was not delivered.
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  • "The loss was not life-changing," said Klonovska. She then asked, "What if they delivered a lost letter from a suitor to his love, and their wedding never happened?"
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  • I'm John Russell.
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  • Andrius Sytas reported on this story for Reuters. John Russell adapted it for Learning English.
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  • Words in This Story
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  • deceased - adj. no longer living
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  • suitor - n. a man who wants to marry a particular woman