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It can be uncomfortable when family stories believed to be true are revealed as myth. When Maggie told me the truth about my uncle Pieter’s death, it took a while to sink in. The story I’d believed for nearly seventy years had entered deeply into my imagination. So, in a different way, had the letters that Jack Morpurgo and my mother wrote each other when they fell in love – though I’ve not read them all. I wanted to work both Uncle Pieter and those letters into a story. As I turned it over in my mind it began to take the form of a letter itself – a confessional story/letter.