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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-11 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 1
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140 Sunday Night. August 11, 1918. Very Own Sweetheart,-- I am looking right at your picture, with the candle between it and me, and thinking how very handsome you are tonight. In the picture you're so close to me! I could reach out and pat your cheek, and I should not need to stretch much to kiss you. If -- but what's the use of if-ing. You know that I want you more than I want anything in the world. I have never wanted anyone or anything so powerfully or for so long a time as I have wanted you and want you now. To be with you again seems always to be the sole thing I need to be wildly happy. Tonight I am a bit
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140 Sunday Night. August 11, 1918. Very Own Sweetheart,-- I am looking right at your picture, with the candle between it and me, and thinking how very handsome you are tonight. In the picture you're so close to me! I could reach out and pat your cheek, and I should not need to stretch much to kiss you. If -- but what's the use of if-ing. You know that I want you more than I want anything in the world. I have never wanted anyone or anything so powerfully or for so long a time as I have wanted you and want you now. To be with you again seems always to be the sole thing I need to be wildly happy. Tonight I am a bit
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