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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-22 Conger Reynolds to Daphe Reynolds Page 9
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had read one of his love poems that made me miserable with longing for my mate and another about the louse that wanted to live in the queen's hair - that made me wonder how the same man could write both. I took up the letters. Of course I had read them before; I was renewing the first pleasure of their content. Then my nose got busy. The perfume from the paper awakened memories of times when I had sensed it before, particularly of one night in the darkness of your studio when your head was on my shoulder and my nose was buried in your hair inhaling that same perfume. I found myself kissing the
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had read one of his love poems that made me miserable with longing for my mate and another about the louse that wanted to live in the queen's hair - that made me wonder how the same man could write both. I took up the letters. Of course I had read them before; I was renewing the first pleasure of their content. Then my nose got busy. The perfume from the paper awakened memories of times when I had sensed it before, particularly of one night in the darkness of your studio when your head was on my shoulder and my nose was buried in your hair inhaling that same perfume. I found myself kissing the
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