The Letters: A Lifetime Foreign Affair

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The Letters: A Lifetime Foreign Affair is a love story about two countries, two cultures, two lives, and one love. It’s the authentic portrayal of an ultimate and profoundly satisfying love relationship that evolved between the book’s author and her late husband. This powerful story is also a collection of two lovers’ letters, respect for cultures and individual lives, and respect for a union in love. It all begins when a rugged, dashing, and disciplined U.S. Marine Corps Colonel, Hewitt Dayne Adams, meets the beautiful but strong-willed and highly knowledgeable Mae Yum from a Korean aristocratic family by chance and fate. Mae’s unexplained prophetic dream under her grandfather’s ginkgo tree when six years old intertwines two lives with two different views of life.

Full of life lessons and a tender, timeless romance, the letters capture the joys and frustrations that come with love while also revealing the deepest secrets of their hearts. It is poignant, emotional, and at times heartrending. The conversations between them are often frank and brutally honest. The letters display their frailties, strengths, passionate love, and all the human emotions they experienced. The fundamental differences in their cultural upbringing of East and West played a large part in misunderstanding each other and hindered their way to harmony, but ultimately love prevailed.