"Your
first letter from Winfield arrived today.
In it you indicated that you were somewhat downhearted, because of your
father's attitude about money. If we had
known ahead of time, perhaps we could have worked out something--a very simple
wedding. Or we might have arranged to
finish your schooling after marriage--to save him some of the expense. Some of the resentment might be directed at
me--the one who caused you to attend school instead of becoming a wage-earner
last summer. If that's the case, I'm
vitally interested in getting the misunderstanding cleared up. I'm not anxious
to start off married life on the wrong side of the fence from the in-laws. Perhaps you could talk to him--to reach an
understanding to save any additional expenses."
--Letter
from my father, Protection, Kans., to my mother, Winfield, Kans., Tuesday,
January 6, 1948.
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