Word: schoolkid
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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With the help of the American Women's Voluntary Services, more than 100,000 Friendship Boxes had already been shipped overseas. Many a U.S. schoolkid, wrestling with his first letter to a new, unknown friend, discovered that much of what he took for granted in his life looked wonderful written down ("We have mountains . . . fertile valleys . . . beautiful gardens"). When the thank-you notes arrived, he felt even luckier. Sample: "I am not writing so fine, because I have been 31 years in a camp. Well, let us not talk about that...