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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918

1918-06-15 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4

I was half stupefied. I didn't even venture to wish then that you might love me.  But unconsciously I surely changed my notions about wanting to be in love then and there. Much water has run under the Hennepin Street bridge since then and many other things have happened to make me look back to that day as the Great Beginning of Life.  How wonderful, as I look back, seems the course that events took!  Surely some great good fortune was shaping them.
It is torture to love you so passionately and to be so utterly deprived of the magic of your nearness.  I wonder sometimes if to any man over here that kind of loss is so much a sacrifice.  Then I think of what the separation is to you and to other wives of other men back home and I'm almost ashamed.  For the woman's part is after all the harder.  She cannot know what is happening and she cannot enjoy the calmness about things "over there" that the man does about things at home. I'm glad there is not great reason for you to worry about me. Forever - Hubby
Conger Reynolds
2nd Lt. A.G.D.
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I was half stupefied. I didn't even venture to wish then that you might love me. But unconsciously I surely changed my notions about wanting to be in love then and there. Much water has run under the Hennepin Street bridge since then and many other things have happened to make me look back to that day as the Great Beginning of Life. How wonderful, as I look back, seems the course that events took! Surely some great good fortune was shaping them. It is torture to love you so passionately and to be so utterly deprived of the magic of your nearness. I wonder sometimes if to any man over here that kind of loss is so much a sacrifice. Then I think of what the separation is to you and to other wives of other men back home and I'm almost ashamed. For the woman's part is after all the harder. She cannot know what is happening and she cannot enjoy the calmness about things "over there" that the man does about things at home. I'm glad there is not great reason for you to worry about me. Forever - Hubby Conger Reynolds 2nd Lt. A.G.D. [censors seal]