My last present for all the exceptional people at  History_Furs

I find it interesting that hatred is one of the best preserved emotions in the world. It DEMANDS to be remembered leaving ruined buildings, craters, extinct groups of people, and other such signatures across the planet. The autograph of hatred is one we see in film, across media, and throughout history to the extent that the hatred between fictional characters is even remembered by our cultural memory. But there is an equally powerful emotion that I've found is much much harder to notice, one that leaves quiet signatures that are easily overlooked and claimed by time; but they're no less powerful when you find them. Love exists around us everywhere we look, whether it is a silent feeling we feel among friends or an old letter handwritten from a friend. When I bought my old story book from 1903 called Afloat and Ashore, inside on one of the old pages that had fallen out at the front of the book I discovered such a message still preserved despite being very faded and written in pencil. From as best as I can tell I think it reads

"Miss Bala J Burt
Dec25-1906
Mama"

And I was taken a little bit aback by it when I got to thinking of it. In my hands was a letter, a hand written message from a gift given to someone over a hundred and ten years ago. The book was a collection of stories given to a young woman by a loving mother and I could only sit and wonder what those two people were like or how that situation played out. Perhaps Miss Bala was a little girl who liked to read and became enamored with the book when she saw it new sitting in a bookstore and her mother bought it for her for Christmas? I'll probably never know or every really get the chance to know what those two people were even remotely like, but I know this; the mother must have loved her terribly! And I got to see the remains of that love, over one hundred years later and I got to see, to hold one such signature of good feelings and caring from years long past. I want to preserve this note here online so that I can share these memories with all of you, and so this little tiny note that I EASILY could have never seen will live on for as long as the internet does so that everyone will always know that Miss Bala J Burt's mother loved her.