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Nile Kinnick correspondence, June-August 1942
1942-07-25: Page 03
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2 U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION MIAMI, FLORIDA house and grounds? And the first time I ever mowed your lawn, I'll never forget that. It seemed an interminable job then, and I never would have lasted had you not called me in for ice cream and cookies every now and then. But the three dollars, or however much it was, how proud I was of that, how wealthy I felt. Frequently, when Hobbs and I talk of the Mercer Island folks I think back on our trip on the Nor'wester. I now realize that that was an incomparable experience, positively unsurpassed. The locks, the rolling swell of the ocean, Lucia, Nanaimo, Princess Louisa Inlet with its sheer walls and beautiful falls, Knights inlet,
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2 U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION MIAMI, FLORIDA house and grounds? And the first time I ever mowed your lawn, I'll never forget that. It seemed an interminable job then, and I never would have lasted had you not called me in for ice cream and cookies every now and then. But the three dollars, or however much it was, how proud I was of that, how wealthy I felt. Frequently, when Hobbs and I talk of the Mercer Island folks I think back on our trip on the Nor'wester. I now realize that that was an incomparable experience, positively unsurpassed. The locks, the rolling swell of the ocean, Lucia, Nanaimo, Princess Louisa Inlet with its sheer walls and beautiful falls, Knights inlet,
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