Eating a meal with a stranger is not uncommon in Europe. People do it all the time. Most European don’t share our American ideal of solitude. This is a story of a one time event that lived in memory for a very long time.
Collectors – each of us – is guilty of dismissing a card in poor condition as unworthy of anything more than saving space for a better one! I’ll never do that again. The card that inspired this Lucile Palmer research is creased, dirty, and torn.