all u’s letter
母亲的信
capuzzi locke/卡布兹·洛克
to this day i reber y u‘s lettersit all started deceber 1941every night she sat at the big t table the kitchen and wrote to y brother johnny，who had been drafted that surwe had not heard fro hi sce the japanese attacked pearl harbor
直到今天我还记得妈妈写的那些信。这一切要从1941年12月说起，每天晚上妈妈都要坐在厨房里的大桌子前，给我哥哥约翰尼写信。约翰尼是那年夏季应征入伍的，自从日本突袭了珍珠港，我们就再也没有了他的音讯。
i didn’t understand why y u kept writg johnny when he never wrote back
“wait and see—we‘ll t a letter fro hi one day，”she cidi don’t know if she said that to cal herself，dad or all of down，but i do know that it helped stick tother，and one day a letter really did arrive，johnny was alive on an isnd the pacific
i had always been aed by the fact that u signed her letters，“cecilia capuzzi”，and i teased her about that“why don‘t you jt write ’u‘？”i said
i hadn’t been aware that she always thought of herself as cecilia capuzzh not as u，i began seeg her a new sight，this sall delicate woan，who even high-heeled shoes was barely one and a half tres tall
那时我并不理解妈妈为什么在约翰尼从未回过一封信的情况下，还要坚持给他写信。
“等等看——总有一天我们会收到他的信的，”她说道。我不知道她说这些是不是在安慰她自己和爸爸，或者我们大家，但我知道她的话确实把我们的心系在一起。后来果然有一天，信真的来了。约翰尼还活着，他在太平洋的一个小岛上。
那时有一件事我时常觉得好笑——妈妈在信后的签名竟然是“塞西莉娅？卡布兹”，于是我调侃她说：“为什么你不直接签上‘妈妈’呢？”
在此之前我从未察觉她一直把自己称为“塞西莉娅？卡布兹”，而不是“妈妈”。于是我开始用种新的眼光来审视这位娇小玲珑、穿上高跟鞋还不足150公分高的女子。
she never wore ake-up or jewelry except for a weddg rg of goldher hair was fe，sleek and bck and always put up a knot the neckshe wouldn‘t hear of ttg a haircut orher sall silver-rid pce-nez only left her nose when she went to bed
whenever u had fished a letter，she gave it to dad for hi to post itthen she put the water on to boil，and we sat down at the table and talked about the good old days when our italian-arican faily had been a faily often—u，dad and eight children，five boys and three girlsit is hard to understand that they had all oved away fro ho to work，enroll the ary，or t arriedall except