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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 2, 1945
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"Dearest Daddy: "I awoke this morning with a feeling of complete thankfulness and happiness. The whole world seemed bright, regardless of he present weather or war. As I lay in bed I thrilled all over with the thought that I was alive and well and that I had my whole life before me. Or, no, I hadn't either. I had just finished living eighteen years. Eighteen years of happiness and sorrow; fun and heartbreak. I've had more happiness than was coming to me, and, too, I've had my share of unhappiness. But the past is gone, the present is hear, and the future is to come. I have everything now that I want, and that is all of my family well and happy. "I want to thank you and Mom for bringing me into this world just eighteen years ago. I know I haven't been the kind of a daughter I might have been, but I shal try much harer in the years to come. "Dad, I've tried hard to be the kind of a girl I know you wanted me to be, and I've always listened to you and usually taken your advice. You've been more than a girl can expect a father to be. You have been a wonderful Dad. You have been patient and understanding and have stuck by me all through everything. For 18 years you've done your best and I hope to make you as proud of me someday as I am proud of you. "if my next 10 years are just 1/18th as wonderful as these first 18, then I shall never complain about anything again. "Saying 'Thank you!' seems like such a little thing, but when I saw it, it comes from the bottom of my heart. ""'Thank you' for giving me life and then helping me to enjoy it and to understand it. "With all of my heart and love I saw 'Thank you, and may God bless you'." Again I humbly submit that no parent could possibly receive a greater honor than such trust- from his children. BUT IT MUST BE EARNED! (And, oh! how often I failed.) I usually started with them when they were about old enough to go for a walk of several blocks with me. We would turn at each corner as we came to it, until after two or three turns we would stop in the middle of a block while we looked at a tree a flower, or some other object. Then I would pretend I was lost, and tell them they must show me the way to go home. And they soon learned to do it. 4
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"Dearest Daddy: "I awoke this morning with a feeling of complete thankfulness and happiness. The whole world seemed bright, regardless of he present weather or war. As I lay in bed I thrilled all over with the thought that I was alive and well and that I had my whole life before me. Or, no, I hadn't either. I had just finished living eighteen years. Eighteen years of happiness and sorrow; fun and heartbreak. I've had more happiness than was coming to me, and, too, I've had my share of unhappiness. But the past is gone, the present is hear, and the future is to come. I have everything now that I want, and that is all of my family well and happy. "I want to thank you and Mom for bringing me into this world just eighteen years ago. I know I haven't been the kind of a daughter I might have been, but I shal try much harer in the years to come. "Dad, I've tried hard to be the kind of a girl I know you wanted me to be, and I've always listened to you and usually taken your advice. You've been more than a girl can expect a father to be. You have been a wonderful Dad. You have been patient and understanding and have stuck by me all through everything. For 18 years you've done your best and I hope to make you as proud of me someday as I am proud of you. "if my next 10 years are just 1/18th as wonderful as these first 18, then I shall never complain about anything again. "Saying 'Thank you!' seems like such a little thing, but when I saw it, it comes from the bottom of my heart. ""'Thank you' for giving me life and then helping me to enjoy it and to understand it. "With all of my heart and love I saw 'Thank you, and may God bless you'." Again I humbly submit that no parent could possibly receive a greater honor than such trust- from his children. BUT IT MUST BE EARNED! (And, oh! how often I failed.) I usually started with them when they were about old enough to go for a walk of several blocks with me. We would turn at each corner as we came to it, until after two or three turns we would stop in the middle of a block while we looked at a tree a flower, or some other object. Then I would pretend I was lost, and tell them they must show me the way to go home. And they soon learned to do it. 4
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