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Pacific Grove Letters: with Ray Carver first Breathed Here. G C Troop

Recent widower with three sons, Alex, purchases an old house in Pacific Grove, California. During the home renovation, he unearths a rusty and dented decades-old tin box from under a back porch. Inside it he finds a cache of personal letters, an unfinished manuscript for a novel, and a well-used tobacco pipe.
That evening, Alex begins reading the manuscript outline and finds it has parallels to his own life. He realizes the contents from the tin box are a treasure trove of creativity and memories. They are personal letters relating to sorrow and happiness. The manuscript from decades past somehow helps Alex in dealing with the death of his wife and helps him with his own grieving process, knowing the feelings he has were shared by others down through the centuries.
One late afternoon, after a chance encounter with an elderly neighbor, Alex discovers that the cache of letters and the 'lost' manuscript outline are actually handwritten personal items by one of America's foremost authors, who lived in the house in the late thirties.
Please read and enjoy Pacific Grove Letters.