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Conger Reynolds correspondence, December 1918
1918-12-31 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6
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much sympathizing. My chief thought about being ill was -- why in the world should a man who feels as well as I do have any fever? This is my first time in a hospital. It's the only place to be -- especially when you're well enough to enjoy it as I have been. You feel a delicious lightening of responsibility. You are in the hands of doctors and nurses who presumably know what to do for you and you entrust to them all concern about how you get on. The first day or so I didn't even want to know what my temperature was; the nurse who stuck
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much sympathizing. My chief thought about being ill was -- why in the world should a man who feels as well as I do have any fever? This is my first time in a hospital. It's the only place to be -- especially when you're well enough to enjoy it as I have been. You feel a delicious lightening of responsibility. You are in the hands of doctors and nurses who presumably know what to do for you and you entrust to them all concern about how you get on. The first day or so I didn't even want to know what my temperature was; the nurse who stuck
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