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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, July 1944-April 1945

1944-08-09 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 3

little candy I normally eat in the summer time and how I wouldn't think of having a cup of hot chocolate every night. Well, we have just eaten till we gasp, and still things fall our of our cupboard. Jay has gotten so she almost cries when she gets a package. We've all gained weight and we just must stop it. When we started requesting things it was cold and we had no heat, besides which we had no PX. Now we get four candy bars -- good ones, too -- a week, a roll of hard candy and three packages of cookies. We are well fed and can have all we want to eat at meals and a picnic packed whenever we ask for it. So the kitchen raids are just for fun and to take the place of breakfast, which we don't eat. I wish that you wouldn't feel you need to send one a week and that when you do send one you'd make it mostly stockings, bath salts, [sweaters?], or something like that with just a bit of food if any. OK? I'd like super-Kotex for packing! As for Christmas, I wish we could just postpone it again and put aside the money. The city where we are is a closed one now to buzz bomb refugees because its

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little candy I normally eat in the summer time and how I wouldn't think of having a cup of hot chocolate every night. Well, we have just eaten till we gasp, and still things fall our of our cupboard. Jay has gotten so she almost cries when she gets a package. We've all gained weight and we just must stop it. When we started requesting things it was cold and we had no heat, besides which we had no PX. Now we get four candy bars -- good ones, too -- a week, a roll of hard candy and three packages of cookies. We are well fed and can have all we want to eat at meals and a picnic packed whenever we ask for it. So the kitchen raids are just for fun and to take the place of breakfast, which we don't eat. I wish that you wouldn't feel you need to send one a week and that when you do send one you'd make it mostly stockings, bath salts, [sweaters?], or something like that with just a bit of food if any. OK? I'd like super-Kotex for packing! As for Christmas, I wish we could just postpone it again and put aside the money. The city where we are is a closed one now to buzz bomb refugees because its