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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-25 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 3
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claims all credit. I think I told you when I blurted out that I was in love with your daughter that my father and mother were just plain folks. They've lived a good part of their life on a farm and the rest in a small town. They have worked hard and lived simply. Without the slightest disrespect for them I can tell you I should never be satisfied to follow them by living the same sort of life. It would be all wrong if I were so inclined. I have had many advantages in starting life that they didn't have. My dad went to war when he was nineteen - and his education went ker-plunk right there. After two years of it there was nothing for him to do but to go at the only thing he knew, which was farming. So he did, pioneering in an untouched land. He never grew wealthy
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claims all credit. I think I told you when I blurted out that I was in love with your daughter that my father and mother were just plain folks. They've lived a good part of their life on a farm and the rest in a small town. They have worked hard and lived simply. Without the slightest disrespect for them I can tell you I should never be satisfied to follow them by living the same sort of life. It would be all wrong if I were so inclined. I have had many advantages in starting life that they didn't have. My dad went to war when he was nineteen - and his education went ker-plunk right there. After two years of it there was nothing for him to do but to go at the only thing he knew, which was farming. So he did, pioneering in an untouched land. He never grew wealthy
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