A Letter from Fred, the 96-year-old man who wrote a song for his late wife

This is a wonderful, happy, sad story.

A Letter from Fred, the 96-year-old man who wrote a song for his late wife

This is a wonderful, happy, sad story.

When Green Shoe Studio ran an online singer-songwriter competition where they invited talent to upload YouTube videos, they received something entirely unexpected and wholly touching: a large manilla envelope in the post with a hand-written address.

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