Love stories never end and here is some sweet proof of that. An employee of a recycling facility in France accidentally discovered 200 love letters from World War II in Saint-Jean-d’Angély, on the West Coast.

Cécile, a lawyer in environmental law, explained that a man buried a box with letters under dozens of newspapers from the 1960s and 1970s. They were addressed to the same person, Aimée, a resident of the small town Loubillé, not far from the recycling centre, according to a local radio.

The lawyer then went on a quest on social media to find Aimée's traces and wrote on Twitter: “I work in a waste reception centre and a man came to bring us a box full of letters addressed to a certain Aimée Randonnet. Help me find her children/grandchildren. I don't want this to go in the trash."

Her message went viral and was shared more than 20,000 times, which help her to track down Aimée's family. She found out that the old woman died in 2014 at 86 years old, and her great-nephew wrote to her and put her in contact with Aimée's daughter. Claudine, 65 years old, said the letters were written by her father Pierre, when he went to the war between 1939 and 1945.

The house were the old woman lived had been sold a while ago and a box was probably forgotten there. The new owner had emptied the attic and probably threw everything in the bin.

How do you feel about this story?

Do you know if your family kept some lost treasures from ancestors, like those letters?

What would you have done if you had found the letters yourself?

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