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A woman named Sandy discovers love letters in her mother's closet from an unknown man she soon discovers is her father who she was told had been killed in the Battle of the Bulge. She decides to try and find him fifty years later.
The next story is about her mother and father and their life during WWII when he becomes a tank commander and she becomes a welder in a defense plant. His tank is destroyed in the Battle of the Bulge, but he escapes, wounded, and is hidden by a Belgian farm family behind enemy lines and is nursed back to health by their young daughter who he falls in love with. After being rescued by the Allies, he is mistaken for a German spy and imprisoned until he can prove his true identity. In the meantime, his young wife receives a telegram that he had been killed. When he is finally released, he comes back to the States only to discover his wife has remarried, so he decides to head back to Belgium to find his true love.
Sandy eventually discovers her father's location and travels to Belgium for a heartwarming, but tenuous homecoming with a man who never knew he even had a daughter since Helen had become pregnant right before he left for Belgium.
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