19 July,2011 07:47 AM IST | | Agencies
A love letter to a US college student from the girlfriend who was to become his wife is finally on its way to him 53 years after it was written in 1958.
The letter surfaced in a Pennsylvanian university mailroom earlier this month.
It was addressed to Clark C Moore, who has since changed his name to Muhammad Siddeeq, making it hard to trace him.
But a friend saw a TV report about it and contacted the sorting office. Siddeeq (74) says he is still eager to read it, despite now being divorced.
The letter mysteriously arrived at the California University of Pennsylvania, in the north-eastern state of Pennsylvania, 10 days ago.
Written to Moore, the two-page letter was postmarked 20 February 1958 and signed "love forever Vonnie".
Siddeeq, a retired teacher who is now living in the mid-western city of Indianapolis, said he was shocked when he was contacted by the university.
"We have a system here in America where if something is for you and if they find it, it gets to you, that's beautiful," he said.
They did eventually marry and have four children. He admitted to having mixed emotions about the letter as he and Vonnie are now divorced.
But he said that he was keen to read it as it was "a testament of the sincerity, interest and innocence of that time".
