Daniel was not the same Daniel he was before the war. He came back missing both a leg and a piece of himself. He came back looking so much older, harder, than before he left; stress lines around his eyes and forehead. But he was back.

It’s an adjustment at first. You were never actually with him before he left, you were still courting. Even so, he wrote to you every chance he got. He used every stamp he could get his hands on (which his mother was not particularly form of) towards you, affectionately signing each one ’Love, Danny’.

You feel like you’re flying when you finally see him.