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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, April -August, 1942
1942-08-13 Page 3
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-3- upset you a little but I think I'll be good for you - just as you are for me. I've this comment to make on your special: that I can see now that if things go wrong between us it will be my fault, not yours, because if ever a man knew how to handle me it's you. Your touch is psychologically perfect. The only simile that occurs to me is that of a master horseman with a fiery, high-strung steed. He never loses patience at those times when a lesser man would take to a whip; he soothes away the panic, he's firm in the face of rebellion; and the animal learns to trust him so that, though he might be unmanageable by anyone else his confidence in the master is complete. And in my case - I have a feeling that you
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-3- upset you a little but I think I'll be good for you - just as you are for me. I've this comment to make on your special: that I can see now that if things go wrong between us it will be my fault, not yours, because if ever a man knew how to handle me it's you. Your touch is psychologically perfect. The only simile that occurs to me is that of a master horseman with a fiery, high-strung steed. He never loses patience at those times when a lesser man would take to a whip; he soothes away the panic, he's firm in the face of rebellion; and the animal learns to trust him so that, though he might be unmanageable by anyone else his confidence in the master is complete. And in my case - I have a feeling that you
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