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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, January-May, 1943
1943-05-03 Page 2
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for it. After you, there is nothing I'd like better than for us to be able to take the boy - and the girl, too, if you wanted her. I - oh, what's the use our hands are tied by fate. Still, if both children wanted to come with your folk now we could take the boy later when the war is over. Yet if something were to happen to me that would wreck it. I don't know just what to say but my mind has been full of those two kids. You know, I guess, how much I love children and I hate to see them hurt and bewildered. I always want to gather them in and give them friendship or love and security.
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for it. After you, there is nothing I'd like better than for us to be able to take the boy - and the girl, too, if you wanted her. I - oh, what's the use our hands are tied by fate. Still, if both children wanted to come with your folk now we could take the boy later when the war is over. Yet if something were to happen to me that would wreck it. I don't know just what to say but my mind has been full of those two kids. You know, I guess, how much I love children and I hate to see them hurt and bewildered. I always want to gather them in and give them friendship or love and security.
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