Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Dec. 13, 1943

They placed their packages under the tree

Lowell had recaptured the pen and wrote a few things about work that make no sense to me. “Put packages below Christmas tree,” he concluded.

They have been getting packages in the mail for weeks now, as well as shopping for each other. Still, it must have seemed a poignant Christmas for this couple, so far away from their families in Ohio.

Fortunately fo…