Feb. 25 (UPI) —<\/span> A Virginia woman who found a concealed attic door in a closet and went up to find a stash of decades-old love letters was able to connect with the grandson of the letters’ sender and recipient.<\/p>\n Anna Prillaman said she was getting an early start on spring cleaning at her Henrico County home when she discovered a latched panel in the ceiling of a closet.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “I realized there was a door. It is not a door that had a key or anything it was just latched at the top,” Prillaman told WTVR-TV.<\/p>\n Prillaman said the door led to a section of attic she hadn’t visited before.<\/p>\n “I am an 80s baby, so I watched Goonies. So as I’m rummaging through the attic I’m thinking there could be treasure back here, could be a map, there could be gold coins,” she said.<\/p>\n The homeowner said the hidden treasure turned out to be two boxes of love letters written by a man named Vance and addressed to a woman named Betty Sue McGhee.<\/p>\n Vance, who was serving in the Navy in the 1950s, wrote of his love for McGhee.<\/p>\n “When we’re not together I know just the right words that I would use in telling you everything. But when we’re together all I can think of is ‘I love you,'” Vance wrote.\n<\/p>\n Prillaman posted about the letters on Facebook.<\/p>\n “Even if the two writing one another are no longer with us, I’d love to find the family to pass them on. I know I’d cherish these if these were my grandparents corresponding,” Prillaman wrote.<\/p>\n She said web sleuths got to work on the case, and soon she was connected with Portland, Ore., man Dalton Long, 30, who confirmed Vance and Betty were his grandparents.<\/p>\n Long said he grew up with his grandparents in the house where Prillaman now lives, but he never knew about the stash of letters.<\/p>\n “To add words to that time in their life is going to be incredible,” Long said.<\/p>\n He said he is grateful to Prillaman for seeing the value in the letters.<\/p>\n “She was able to find something and find the other end of it,” he said. “And I think not only is it exciting for me but I hope it’s exciting for her to be able to unite me with a little piece of my past.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anna Prillaman of Henrico County, Va., found a hidden panel in a closet that led to a section of attic where she found two boxes of decades-old love letters. She was able to find the couple’s grandson by posting about the discovery on social media. Photo by Nile\/Pixabay.com Feb. 25 (UPI) — A Virginia woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nAnna Prillaman of Henrico County, Va., found a hidden panel in a closet that led to a section of attic where she found two boxes of decades-old love letters. She was able to find the couple’s grandson by posting about the discovery on social media. Photo by Nile\/Pixabay.com<\/div>\n\n