I came to Angel’s Camp to work as a printer’s devil for the Calaveras Gazette. I first saw Meili at the local laundry owned by her father. Her beautiful smile won my heart. Soon we were in love and talked about a new life together. A marriage had been arranged to a wealthy San Francisco merchant when Meili was a little girl. Her parents planned to take her to The City when the pass cleared of snow. We left late at night planning to hide out in one of the old abandoned mines in the back country. The trackers found our bodies down in the shaft where we had fallen. The old timers say that they can hear us calling to each other late at night out at the old mine. They call it the Lost Lovers Mine.
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Aw, I like a good love story, but I prefer happy endings. Nice job with this.
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Me too. Thank You, Dan. 🙂
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Wonderful story–poignant.
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Thank You very much Tanya. 🙂
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😊
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What a wonderful story but so sad. I love stories that have “legends” in them like yours does.
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Thank You Joy. I wove a little historical fiction into the story about the setting, Angel’s Camp.
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That’s really nice!
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Thanks.
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Loved it. Together forever.
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Thank You!
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No one can part them now! Great take! Love it! 🙂
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Thank You! 🙂
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A bit sad, but also beautiful. And a lovely interpretation of the photo 🙂
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Thank You Sonya. 🙂
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An unfortunate accident, but at least their together.
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Yes.
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Lovely story, but sad. Life is like that sometimes.
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Thank You.
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Beautiful love story but very sad. Good job you did evoking emotions. 🙂
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Thank You Susan. 🙂
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Hi Deborah, I thought you told this sad story with a lovely touch of reverence. Well done.
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Thank You Michael, very kind words. I had heard of Angel’s Camp from the story by Mark Twain. I did some quick research and found that Angel’s Camp is in the California Gold country. In this part of California history there are the miners and fortune seekers and there were the Chinese immigrants who often operated the laundries or were laborers. So that is where it all came from.
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Thank you for sharing that with me…..good to know historical context….have a good day/evening…
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You are welcome. Thank You.
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I like that they still call to each other. 🙂
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It is a romantic story. 🙂
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Very clever, unique and romantically sad…wonderful story!
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Thank You very much. 🙂
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