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Title: Explora Books Releases ‘An American Girl Book 1,’ a Love Story Built Through Letters

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 24th Sep 2026 - The book tells the story of Sharon Sholl and Mark Main, who met by chance in November 1968 when Mark, a soldier who had recently completed boot camp, walked into the diner where Sharon worked just weeks before shipping out to Vietnam. What began as a direct request—“I don’t have a girlfriend to write to while I’m gone. How about if I write to you?”—grew into a correspondence that would carry the couple through Mark’s deployment, a broken engagement, personal setbacks on both sides, and their eventual marriage in 1972.Structured across fifteen chapters, each titled after a classic love song of the era—including “Be My Baby,” “It Takes Two,” and “When a Man Loves a Woman”—the memoir follows the couple’s relationship as it was built letter by letter across the distance of war. It also traces their family histories and childhoods before they met and closes with an epilogue looking ahead to the decades they would share.The book carries a spiritual dimension throughout, opening with the assertion that Sharon and Mark’s meeting and marriage were part of a divine plan, while weaving scripture into their story from courtship through their life together.Based on the author’s personal experience, some names, characters, and identifying details in the book have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.S. Naomi Main is a retired public school employee. She lives with her cocker spaniel, Ellie, and black cat, Ned Pike, in the home she and Mark moved into in 1979.The story of Sharon and Mark continues in the second book of the series, which covers their marriage, community life, and the later challenges that shaped their union.An American Girl Book 1: The Letters Between Us is now available in paperback and hardcover th...

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