Bill O'Leary, The Washington Post Shown are some of the hundreds of letters written during and after World War II, mostly by the members of a single family – the Eydes of Rockford, Ill. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by by Bill O’Leary MESA, Ariz. – The storage unit’s corrugated metal door slid upward, revealing 100 square feet of mostly empty space. Not very promising, thought Joe Alosi, a businessman who bid on units, sight unseen, when tenants stopped paying the rent. Several plastic bins sat in the middle of the floor, and dust billowed as Alosi peeled off the first lid. Inside, tightly packed, were rows of envelopes. Alosi opened one, and then another,...
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