"Tonight
Ben and I had a chess game. After he
defeated me we dropped over to see old Mr. Van Wie, who is in bed with
flu. He had much sage advice to
offer--speaking from the weight of 80 years experience. If I had it all to do over again, I'd take
life easier, he mused. Then he adviced
Ben and I to start doing nothing for a while.
'The years fly by after you get to be 21'. 'Life is very short.' The things which he said weren't
startling. But his convincing way of
saying them made his observations impressive."
--Letter
from my father, Protection, Kans., to my mother, Winfield, Kans., Wednesday
evening, January 7, 1948.
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