A Moon, a Girl Romance#12(1950)

Flo, whose husband Harry has been in prison for 3 years, agrees to date Jerry as a favour to a co-worker, and they fall in love. Harry is released on parole and is reunited with Flo, but as time goes by she realises he’s returned to a life of crime. Harry hits Flo when she objects, and later demands she flee with him after he kills a man. Flo confesses all to Jerry, but insists her duty is to stay with her husband. Fortunately, Harry is shot to death by the police so Flo is now free.

Released after a year in prison, Marta finds and returns a briefcase to John, who turns out to be a judge. Marta and John fall in love, although she feels she’s “not worthy of his love!” John proposes and Marta turns him down, then writes a farewell letter explaining how she stole money from a bank to help her brother. John tracks Laura down and says he loves her, and also knew who she was from the outset.

Jane and Mark fall in love, then he’s in an auto accident and his face is “all kind of crushed!” While recuperating, Mark receives letters from Jane, read to him (because his eyes are bandaged) by kindly nurse Sue. When the bandages come off, he’s greeted by his friend Fred and Jane, who are now engaged. Sue was the one who wrote the letters from “Jane” to keep up Mark’s spirits. Mark and Sue will be married.

Letters from readers and replies from "Amy."

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After Carole’s parents are killed in an auto accident, she became the sole support of her younger sister Laura and her brother Sonny, who's in a wheelchair after the crash. Laura is self-centered and vain, and when Carole turns down a proposal from handsome doctor Dick because of her responsibilities to her siblings, Laura throws herself at him. However, Sonny informs Dick that Carole really loves him, and they are reconciled.