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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 16-31, 1918

1918-03-29 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4

air raid alarms, for example, have ceased to be a novelty. Nothing ever comes of them; so they have lost their dramatic character and got into the same class with ordinary bugle calls. Indeed I'm getting so "fed up" on the things that make this experience a "big adventure," that I am beginnings to realize that it isn't the big adventure. It is like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I suppose.  Anyhow I haven't any taste for the search until I can take my courageous sweetheart with me. That will be something else again.
Dear, you shame me for ever trying to express the meaning of love to you. You tell me you cannot express your own love, and then you do it so beautifully that I feel that my love letters have been weak and groping.  What a soul you have! I hold forever sacred the knowledge you give me

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air raid alarms, for example, have ceased to be a novelty. Nothing ever comes of them; so they have lost their dramatic character and got into the same class with ordinary bugle calls. Indeed I'm getting so "fed up" on the things that make this experience a "big adventure," that I am beginnings to realize that it isn't the big adventure. It is like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I suppose. Anyhow I haven't any taste for the search until I can take my courageous sweetheart with me. That will be something else again. Dear, you shame me for ever trying to express the meaning of love to you. You tell me you cannot express your own love, and then you do it so beautifully that I feel that my love letters have been weak and groping. What a soul you have! I hold forever sacred the knowledge you give me