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Conger Reynolds correspondence, 1917
1917-12-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Goodenough Page 1
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written on train, Postmarked St. Louis, Dec 13, 1917 Wednesday 7 p.m. Sweetheart, Writing is going to be a difficult feat on this bucking bronco of a train, but write I simply must. I know you have missed me today; I hope, though, you have not suffered as I have. If the bitterness of it were not so completely offset by realization of the one great fact that you love me, I don't know how I should hold together. Of course, that is all I ought to think about. It is permanent; the parting is temporary. Still one can't go through such happiness as ours has been together and not be tortured by having it so disturbed. I kept you up until a frightfully late hour. But it was very
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written on train, Postmarked St. Louis, Dec 13, 1917 Wednesday 7 p.m. Sweetheart, Writing is going to be a difficult feat on this bucking bronco of a train, but write I simply must. I know you have missed me today; I hope, though, you have not suffered as I have. If the bitterness of it were not so completely offset by realization of the one great fact that you love me, I don't know how I should hold together. Of course, that is all I ought to think about. It is permanent; the parting is temporary. Still one can't go through such happiness as ours has been together and not be tortured by having it so disturbed. I kept you up until a frightfully late hour. But it was very
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