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Specially trained volunteers and staff of the Tuberculosis and Health Association of Northern Virginia are keenly interested in 'opening* the Christmas Seal return envelopes. With the contributions come all types of letters letters commenting on how pretty the seals are, letters saying they have illness or they would give more, one requesting a companion, another saying they’ve married and want their name changed. One asked that a message be given to a kinfolk. There are people who, when they received two letters, wrote and enclosed labels from both of their letters. Some wrote of their experience with tuberculosis. Others haven’t received seals and sent a check asking for them. When a larger amount is received than normally contributed, the “opener* is particularly pleased. Out of the almost nine thousand letters received, only one has been of the ‘’critical’* variety. The letter which intrigued the openers the most was the one from a child to Santa Claus — and it travelled on a Christmas Seal instead of a Christmas Stamp. In the opening of letters have been found amounts ranging from on cent to $500. There have been milk checks, refunds and dividend checks, endorsed and forwarded as contributions — there have been postal money orders and American Express orders. Some times money is pinned
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