Bobbie Gorsline was looking for Valentine s Day greeting cards, sorting through the small selection, trying to find just the right one.
She picked up a heart-shaped card printed with flowers and two bluebirds, adorned with a real red feather, that said, “Valentine Greetings to My Sister.”
It was a rare find in 1941, a time before big greeting card companies, which today produce cards for sisters, sisters-in-law, stepsisters, half-sisters, big sisters, little sisters, and friends who seem like sisters.
The verse inside perfectly described Bobbie, who was 21 at the time, and her sister, Jean Coppins, 23, who lived in what was then East Detroit, Michigan. They’d always been close.
Arizona Republic
PHOENIX – Bobbie Gorsline was looking for Valentine s Day greeting cards, sorting through the small selection, trying to find just the right one.
She picked up a heart-shaped card printed with flowers and two bluebirds, adorned with a real red feather, that said, “Valentine Greetings to My Sister.”
It was a rare find in 1941, a time before big greeting card companies, which today produce cards for sisters, sisters-in-law, stepsisters, half-sisters, big sisters, little sisters, and friends who seem like sisters.
The verse inside perfectly described Bobbie, who was 21 at the time, and her sister, Jean Coppins, 23, who lived in what was then East Detroit, Michigan. They’d always been close.