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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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or, better, celebrating the semi-anniversary together. For I don't want so much to go back as forward. It would be better to be with you as your husband of half a year than as a brand-new husband. Being just married is a bit trying in spots when one had never been that way before (excuse me please, for a chuckle or two). The thought occurs to me just now that if I had stayed in Washington as it seemed one time I might you would be with me. What heaven that would be! I don't mind confessing I wish it were that way. I wouldn't be in American in civilian clothing for worlds, but to be in a uniform in Washington would be different. It would offer me some excuse for having happiness. On the other hand I'm not disconted here. It is not in my constitution to worry about "might-have-beens" that didn't come to pass. Duty brought me over to a very interesting and fairly important part in this great thing. I can stand the sacrifice that doing without you means, though it seems to me the greatest I could make, because I know that the time will come when you will be happy that I wear the gold chevrons for service over-seas, and much prouder of me than you would be if I were a Washington stay-at-home. Won't you, dearest? At tea today Lieutenant Wilson had a nurse as his guest. She was one of the kind with big baby eyes and gushing ways. We all enjoyed talk-
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or, better, celebrating the semi-anniversary together. For I don't want so much to go back as forward. It would be better to be with you as your husband of half a year than as a brand-new husband. Being just married is a bit trying in spots when one had never been that way before (excuse me please, for a chuckle or two). The thought occurs to me just now that if I had stayed in Washington as it seemed one time I might you would be with me. What heaven that would be! I don't mind confessing I wish it were that way. I wouldn't be in American in civilian clothing for worlds, but to be in a uniform in Washington would be different. It would offer me some excuse for having happiness. On the other hand I'm not disconted here. It is not in my constitution to worry about "might-have-beens" that didn't come to pass. Duty brought me over to a very interesting and fairly important part in this great thing. I can stand the sacrifice that doing without you means, though it seems to me the greatest I could make, because I know that the time will come when you will be happy that I wear the gold chevrons for service over-seas, and much prouder of me than you would be if I were a Washington stay-at-home. Won't you, dearest? At tea today Lieutenant Wilson had a nurse as his guest. She was one of the kind with big baby eyes and gushing ways. We all enjoyed talk-
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