Yours Hopefully
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Poem by Michael Rosen Meine Lieben* my dears, from where we are now but I can’t say how we have hopes we have fears. So send us news send us a word as we haven’t heard. Please send for our brothers send for our mother. Nothing more can be said as this letter may be read by others. Dear sisters from your brothers between us such a distance meine Lieben ambestens**. I close this letter hoping with you tomorrow will be better meine Lieben my dears. *meine Lieben’ (pronounced ‘my-na lee-bn’), meaning ‘my dears’. **ambestens (pronounced as if in southern British English: ‘um...(rhyming with ‘hum’) bestens’ as if in English it was written ‘bestence’), meaning ‘best wishes’.
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