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In 2007, journalist Sarah Wildman discovered a hidden cache of letters in her grandfather\\u2019s home office. By that time, her grandfather Karl was no longer living, but he had been a strong presence for most of her life\\u2014a worldly bon vivant and successful doctor whose smooth escape from Vienna in 1938 was part of the family lore. The letters, written mostly in German, came from people he\\u2019d left behind\\u2014people Wildman had never heard of before and, in particular, one young Jewish woman named Valy, whose letters made clear that she and Karl had been much more than friends. The letters\\u2014sent between 1939 and 1941\\u2014overflowed with love and yearning, but also conveyed that her...

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