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You may remember I mentioned last year the USPS lost a package containing two Quilts of Valor being returned by a volunteer longarmer from Wisconsin.  I had given up hope of ever seeing the quilts again because our efforts to find the package were unsuccessful.  Then . . . Last week, nine months after the package was lost, I got the following email * * * * * Hi Nancy, I have some good news and quite a story behind it.  The two lost QOV quilts from last October have been found and are back in my possession!!   Here's the story...I received a call a few days ago from a lady in southern Minnesota. Seems your QOV quilts found their way to the donation bin for their church.  She said they get a lot of donations and are never exactly sure where something comes from. But the ladies noticed a beautiful unfinished quilt and thought it was just someone cleaning out "Grandma's things."  One of the ladies even took it home and finished the quilt while they were tr...