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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, June-July, 1943
1943-07-01 Page 3
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for me to play with you. You'd close up, I suspect, like a cool clam and either pretend or be indifferent. And that would be the last thing in the world I want. One doesn't take a lovely blossom and expose it to the cold of winter nor crush it in careless hands. Nor can one treat a cherished love so. When I opened your week-ago-Tuesday's letter I read the joke-letter first. I thought it didn't sound much like my Willametta. Then
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for me to play with you. You'd close up, I suspect, like a cool clam and either pretend or be indifferent. And that would be the last thing in the world I want. One doesn't take a lovely blossom and expose it to the cold of winter nor crush it in careless hands. Nor can one treat a cherished love so. When I opened your week-ago-Tuesday's letter I read the joke-letter first. I thought it didn't sound much like my Willametta. Then
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