The real secret was hidden on the back of each card. She had used a different color of ink to underline certain letters—just one letter here, maybe two there—within her handwritten message. The shaking started in my hands as I spread all 17 postcards out on the kitchen table. It was a painstaking process, but I started carefully jotting down the underlined letters in the order they appeared on the cards.
At first, the sequence of letters made no sense. It was just a jumble. Then, slowly and miraculously, a clear and important phrase began to emerge:Continue reading…
