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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918
1918-09-06 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 5
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But silly as that dream was, I want a lot of assurance that such a wonderful thing as your love for me still exists. Write to me quick, and tell me, sweetheart. I'm in a very queer, gravelly mood today- not at all the way American wives usually feel and act, and not at all the way I'd act if you were here, Mister. But that's how I feel inside, anyway. Today I'm making some little yellow tomaters into preserves, and I've already made five quarts of tomater relish. Oh yessir, yesterday I made a new kind of war bread with bran and nuts and raisins and things. Golly, it was good. Malen ate a lot of it and then said, "Dingbat, you're sure a good cook." He always calls me "Dingbat" because I say it so much. So today Martha called up to find how I made it, and is trying her luck. Helen is attending Jackson, only a couple of blocks from where we are to live, but it sure is heck chasing her all over town finding her when she gets lost. Yesterday noon she started to walk home and I hunted two hours before I found her. When she'd had something to eat I put her
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But silly as that dream was, I want a lot of assurance that such a wonderful thing as your love for me still exists. Write to me quick, and tell me, sweetheart. I'm in a very queer, gravelly mood today- not at all the way American wives usually feel and act, and not at all the way I'd act if you were here, Mister. But that's how I feel inside, anyway. Today I'm making some little yellow tomaters into preserves, and I've already made five quarts of tomater relish. Oh yessir, yesterday I made a new kind of war bread with bran and nuts and raisins and things. Golly, it was good. Malen ate a lot of it and then said, "Dingbat, you're sure a good cook." He always calls me "Dingbat" because I say it so much. So today Martha called up to find how I made it, and is trying her luck. Helen is attending Jackson, only a couple of blocks from where we are to live, but it sure is heck chasing her all over town finding her when she gets lost. Yesterday noon she started to walk home and I hunted two hours before I found her. When she'd had something to eat I put her
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