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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, August-October, 1943
1943-10-22 Page 9
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-9 In writing you and in my actions I have tried to represent myself as I actually am. It may not be the customary, artificial courting ([with its rude awakening afterward). But I have chosen so intelligent a girl and have such faith in her love that I feel that "honesty is best." I would win by being myself it were at all possible. Were I to lose you, I don't know what I'd do. My mind refuses to conceive the possibility. I'd certainly not "just shrug my shoulders and say "Too bad. It just spoils my whole evening." I'd probably sit amidst the broken shards of a happy life and wonder dogedly what to do. What the answer would be I just don't know.
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-9 In writing you and in my actions I have tried to represent myself as I actually am. It may not be the customary, artificial courting ([with its rude awakening afterward). But I have chosen so intelligent a girl and have such faith in her love that I feel that "honesty is best." I would win by being myself it were at all possible. Were I to lose you, I don't know what I'd do. My mind refuses to conceive the possibility. I'd certainly not "just shrug my shoulders and say "Too bad. It just spoils my whole evening." I'd probably sit amidst the broken shards of a happy life and wonder dogedly what to do. What the answer would be I just don't know.
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