"Lena
just now came in holding out her left hand.
She had a glass doorknob on her third finger, and said she had been ut hanging clothes, and it had been love at
first sight, but he only gave her a small ring, since it was all he could
afford it.
"More
of our cleverness. Thelma has your
picture carefully curtained with Kleenex.
She has two long pieces hung on a string so that just your head peeks
out. She says I can pull the curtai ns
if I get mad at you....
"I
had my scaredest counselee, Corrine Gwin, for supper tonight, and got the
nearest to her that I have yet. I
believe she will come out of it in time. She said her mother, father, two sisters, and
three brothers, went to school at Manhattan, but she wanted to come here so she
could be herself and not just the youngest in a family, so I think she must
have some gumption. She is worried about Chemistry, though."
--Letter from my mother, Winfield, Kans., to my
father, Protection, Kans., Friday, November 14, 1947. Two typos per original
typewritten letter.
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