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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, April -August, 1942
1942-06-30 Page 5 #4
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I was so sure that we'd not fall in love - I forget how you phrased it but it implied that if I had not been so blind we might have discovered our love sooner, but the aforesaid phrase proves that you were in the same boat. And this was in Dec. when, after explaining that you had never said you were in love with me because you never said more than you meant. I answered to the effect that we were friends which I regarded (I didn't know everything then!) as a more pleasant state than being sweethearts. So in your reply you said you had written with the purpose of finding how we stood and that your opin-
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I was so sure that we'd not fall in love - I forget how you phrased it but it implied that if I had not been so blind we might have discovered our love sooner, but the aforesaid phrase proves that you were in the same boat. And this was in Dec. when, after explaining that you had never said you were in love with me because you never said more than you meant. I answered to the effect that we were friends which I regarded (I didn't know everything then!) as a more pleasant state than being sweethearts. So in your reply you said you had written with the purpose of finding how we stood and that your opin-
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