Lasting Love, by the Letters

Credit Rommel Bundalian

Credit Ministere de la Culture — Mediatheque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York

Credit Nancy Borowick

Yevgeniy and Lyubov Kissin. Married on June 29, 1941.rn

Yevgeniy: “We met at a dancing party. It was in January 1938. My friend invited me to the party, he said there would be a lot of beautiful young girls. Another cadet with high boots had approached her, but she didn’t like high boots and so she said no to him. I was the second one to approach her. I had a different uniform, but I’m still not sure if it was my uniform or my face that attracted her to me.” Brooklyn.”

Like many love stories, it started with a letter.

Syrian medical workers at a makeshift clinic try to save the life of a baby as a wounded youth lies nearby after airstrikes on the rebel-held city of Douma  northeast of the capital, Damascus.”

An image from a video shows a TransAsia Airways twin turboprop plane clipping an elevated highway and hitting a taxi before it crashed into the Keelung River in eastern Taipei, the Taiwanese capital.”

Residents wait for a bus to evacuate them from Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine, a crucial rail hub that has been surrounded by pro-Russia  separatists.”

The wounded, including two children, seek medical attention at a field hospital after what activists said was an airstrike by government forces on the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.”

The New York Times