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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918

1918-06-15 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

from the waiting for letters than be so unimaginative as to await them indifferently.  I'm so powerfully fond of you, dear!
I wonder where you are tonight.  And I wonder where this will find you.  It should reach you not later than the Fourth of July.  When that day comes I'll be thinking of it as the anniversary of a very important occasion.  Then it will be a year since I fell in love with you.  I didn't realize it at the time but of course I lost my heart - the heart I thought I had made unassailable - from that day. Fate worked with you.  After I had waited for you so long at Curtis Court, and had cold fears that the creature who came wandering through the reception room might be you, and cursed myself for bothering about you, the real you came and won my liking in spite of what had gone before. You were such a good fellow that day!  I discovered in you the human sort of girl whom I had begun to believe did not exist - at least in combination of humanness with other likable traits.  It was owing.  You were so much the real thing of my dreams that

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from the waiting for letters than be so unimaginative as to await them indifferently. I'm so powerfully fond of you, dear! I wonder where you are tonight. And I wonder where this will find you. It should reach you not later than the Fourth of July. When that day comes I'll be thinking of it as the anniversary of a very important occasion. Then it will be a year since I fell in love with you. I didn't realize it at the time but of course I lost my heart - the heart I thought I had made unassailable - from that day. Fate worked with you. After I had waited for you so long at Curtis Court, and had cold fears that the creature who came wandering through the reception room might be you, and cursed myself for bothering about you, the real you came and won my liking in spite of what had gone before. You were such a good fellow that day! I discovered in you the human sort of girl whom I had begun to believe did not exist - at least in combination of humanness with other likable traits. It was owing. You were so much the real thing of my dreams that