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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-25 Conger Reynolds to Daphe Reynolds Page 3
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playing around out in the garden. The sun was shining, fairly beaming, the peonies were spreading their richest crimson to view, and birds were holding forth in chorus - all in honor of the significance of the hour. I knew it was meant for you too, so, since you couldn't be there, I am telling you about it. Going back to the letters - they are immense! I'm half out of my head with the joy that their cheery, confiding, loving tone imparts. Your helmet surely would not fit my head right now, for it shoh am swelled up. It's like the grenade that George Washington Jones was using at throwing practice. The lieutenant had told his niggers to pull the pin, count
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playing around out in the garden. The sun was shining, fairly beaming, the peonies were spreading their richest crimson to view, and birds were holding forth in chorus - all in honor of the significance of the hour. I knew it was meant for you too, so, since you couldn't be there, I am telling you about it. Going back to the letters - they are immense! I'm half out of my head with the joy that their cheery, confiding, loving tone imparts. Your helmet surely would not fit my head right now, for it shoh am swelled up. It's like the grenade that George Washington Jones was using at throwing practice. The lieutenant had told his niggers to pull the pin, count
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