Desperate to get away, Rose drops a marriage proposal into a box of bobbins bound for a cotton mill in Alabama.

Acting against her will, her father had promised her to an older Italian man in their home state of New Jersey.

Leo, a hardworking fixer of machines, finds Rose's letter, and he couldn't have been more pleased when he saw the picture she had enclosed for the first time.

Rose was looking for a hero, someone to take her away. Could Leo be the man she was looking for?

This is the story of how my maternal grandparents met. They were married on the brink of the Great Depression.

What were their chances of making it? Could they find happiness? Or would finding each other have to be enough?

You're invited to step back in time when they were young and read their story now.

I'm Steve Johnson, an indie author from Mississippi, and I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for them.

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