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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918
1918-09-09 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 5
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and while I might be able to play them to a sympathetic listener, I can't express them verbally as I'd like. there you'll be different, for you do express yourself beautifully, Belovedest. Somehow this letter sounds like [Jim?], tho I don't want it to, and this reminds me! Isn't it splendid he is coming back? I do hope the war is finished before he has to return to France, and that he can have his [Mocetta?], bless their hearts. I do hope and pray that he has an easy and safe crossing. You -- you can't come home, can you boy dear? I'm rather glad, too because much as I want you, I'm sure things will happen over there at the wind up that you'd hate to miss, and I want you to see the thing thru. I'm going to be infinitely more proud of you if you stay the thing out than if you come home before it's done. It's going to be a fearfully long old winter, dear. The summer never would end, it seemed, and I never saw days drag so in my life, but they
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and while I might be able to play them to a sympathetic listener, I can't express them verbally as I'd like. there you'll be different, for you do express yourself beautifully, Belovedest. Somehow this letter sounds like [Jim?], tho I don't want it to, and this reminds me! Isn't it splendid he is coming back? I do hope the war is finished before he has to return to France, and that he can have his [Mocetta?], bless their hearts. I do hope and pray that he has an easy and safe crossing. You -- you can't come home, can you boy dear? I'm rather glad, too because much as I want you, I'm sure things will happen over there at the wind up that you'd hate to miss, and I want you to see the thing thru. I'm going to be infinitely more proud of you if you stay the thing out than if you come home before it's done. It's going to be a fearfully long old winter, dear. The summer never would end, it seemed, and I never saw days drag so in my life, but they
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