title: Dear Mom and Dad: Letters home from the Peace Corps
author: Kate Griffin
description: Kate Griffin is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer having served in El Salvador from 1963 to 1965. She is now retired after careers in both teaching and sales. She enjoys the reunions with the others who trained together in Oklahoma and spent two years in either El Salvador or Costa Rica.
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  WHILE  
  WE’RE  
  FAR  
  APART
  
  LYNN AUSTIN
  
    
    
    
    
  
  To my mom, Virginia,  
  a WWII nurse who saved all of her scrapbooks for me.
  
  To my dad, Paul,  
  who served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during WWII.
  
  And to Yaacov and Miriam,  
  who survived the holocaust in Hungary  
  and became part of our family.
  
  Thank you for your legacy of courage and faith.
  
    
    
    
    
  
   _May the Lord keep watch between you and_  
   _me when we are away from each other._  
  Genesis 31:49 NIV
  
  **Contents**
  
  COVER PAGE
  
  TITLE PAGE
  
  DEDICATION
  
  COPYRIGHT PAGE
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
  CHAPTER 2
  
  CHAPTER 3
  
  CHAPTER 4
  
  CHAPTER 5
  
  CHAPTER 6
  
  CHAPTER 7
  
  CHAPTER 8
  
  CHAPTER 9
  
  CHAPTER 10
  
  CHAPTER 11
  
  CHAPTER 12
  
  CHAPTER 13
  
  CHAPTER 14
  
  CHAPTER 15
  
  CHAPTER 16
  
  CHAPTER 17
  
  CHAPTER 18
  
  CHAPTER 19
  
  CHAPTER 20
  
  CHAPTER 21
  
  CHAPTER 22
  
  CHAPTER 23
  
  CHAPTER 24
  
  CHAPTER 25
  
  CHAPTER 26
  
  CHAPTER 27
  
  CHAPTER 28
  
  CHAPTER 29
  
  CHAPTER 30
  
  CHAPTER 31
  
  CHAPTER 32
  
  CHAPTER 33
  
  CHAPTER 34
  
  CHAPTER 35
  
  CHAPTER 36
  
  CHAPTE