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Nile Kinnick correspondence, December 1942-March 1943

1943-01-27: Page 04

by the name of Smith. It is costing them plenty, and it is hard to heat, but man, are they having a good time in such luxurious quarters. There are four or five big rooms downstairs and an equal number of bedrooms upstairs, each with its own adjoining bathroom. The girls had prepared a wonderful meal of roast beef, peas, beets, Yorkshire pudding, homemade bread, chocolate cake. How proud they were of the way the roast turned  out, how eager the husbands were to commend and praise, how healthy was my appetite, how easy to exclaim, and oh and ah, etc. And after dinner we sat around the fireplace talking and listening to the radio. How comfortable it all was - the girls knitting sweaters and sox for their adorable spouses and they laughing around in their sand-crab clothes (civvies to you). Those early years of married life must be divine - all statements or requests preceded by an affectionate diminutive, much lap sitting, many loving pats, ad infinitum - ah my, someday perhaps, I, too, shall experience those blessings.

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by the name of Smith. It is costing them plenty, and it is hard to heat, but man, are they having a good time in such luxurious quarters. There are four or five big rooms downstairs and an equal number of bedrooms upstairs, each with its own adjoining bathroom. The girls had prepared a wonderful meal of roast beef, peas, beets, Yorkshire pudding, homemade bread, chocolate cake. How proud they were of the way the roast turned out, how eager the husbands were to commend and praise, how healthy was my appetite, how easy to exclaim, and oh and ah, etc. And after dinner we sat around the fireplace talking and listening to the radio. How comfortable it all was - the girls knitting sweaters and sox for their adorable spouses and they laughing around in their sand-crab clothes (civvies to you). Those early years of married life must be divine - all statements or requests preceded by an affectionate diminutive, much lap sitting, many loving pats, ad infinitum - ah my, someday perhaps, I, too, shall experience those blessings.