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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, 1945
1945-06-10 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 2
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-ever I can be sure because ending a war in Europe and moving troops on are enough to delay and mix up all shipping - even important cargo like a letter from you to me! I was so happy to get it. I had to hurry up and get my "Sunday" clothes on because I was to usher at Coe at an alumni meeting in which Prof. Garwood lectured on war. I belonged to a social science fraternity at Coe and so alumni members of it were invited to help because Mr. Garwood is in that Dept. Going to that meeting seemed more strange than ever before although I've missed only one since they started five years ago. Mother went with me one of two years. I knew most of teachers there but there were probably only a dozen graduates, none from my class. We have scattered so far and travel for that sort of a meeting wouldn't be justified in these times. I was most interested but I felt like I was a by-stander watching a movie of people, including seeing myself as I had been as a student there. It seems like my life then was so remote from me today that it must have been someone else I saw. I am still so unwise and theoretical, but (and I think I was more of a realist and more mature in many respects than my classmates) my utter lack of comprehension of both the deeper joys and sorrows of people in my school days make it seem like it could not have
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-ever I can be sure because ending a war in Europe and moving troops on are enough to delay and mix up all shipping - even important cargo like a letter from you to me! I was so happy to get it. I had to hurry up and get my "Sunday" clothes on because I was to usher at Coe at an alumni meeting in which Prof. Garwood lectured on war. I belonged to a social science fraternity at Coe and so alumni members of it were invited to help because Mr. Garwood is in that Dept. Going to that meeting seemed more strange than ever before although I've missed only one since they started five years ago. Mother went with me one of two years. I knew most of teachers there but there were probably only a dozen graduates, none from my class. We have scattered so far and travel for that sort of a meeting wouldn't be justified in these times. I was most interested but I felt like I was a by-stander watching a movie of people, including seeing myself as I had been as a student there. It seems like my life then was so remote from me today that it must have been someone else I saw. I am still so unwise and theoretical, but (and I think I was more of a realist and more mature in many respects than my classmates) my utter lack of comprehension of both the deeper joys and sorrows of people in my school days make it seem like it could not have
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