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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 6

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Easy life, when the war broke out he went back to England lied about his age, and enlisted as a private. He had been in training a year or so when he got malaria and was invalided out. We have had several good chats together and he has told me many good stories of the war. The few young fellows on board are not particularly clever or intelligent. Girls there are not any, barring several old maids and one unlovely miss of age uncertainly between twenty and thirty who appears much interested in the smoking room steward. The best looking woman is married to a flight lieutenant in the British navy whom she has left flying about after Zeppelins while she goes home for a brief
 
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