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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-02 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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into thinness. I claim the sole privilege of being the "skinnay" of the family. If I keep on pickin' up at the rate I have since I began eating the luscious food at our club I may lose my even contours but that doesn't give you the right to "decline" from your customary plumpness. Not exactly the word, however; you're not exactly plump, are you? But I like your vigorous build even if it does give you a chance of making my promise of beating you more or less improbably of fulfillment. I'm enclosing a duplicate of a picture the official photographer took of me recently for insertion in my identification book. I carry it to show to doubting French sentries so they can look at me and at the picture and talk to each other for a half hour or so and decide finally that I really am "Yutenong Reynol'" just as I
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into thinness. I claim the sole privilege of being the "skinnay" of the family. If I keep on pickin' up at the rate I have since I began eating the luscious food at our club I may lose my even contours but that doesn't give you the right to "decline" from your customary plumpness. Not exactly the word, however; you're not exactly plump, are you? But I like your vigorous build even if it does give you a chance of making my promise of beating you more or less improbably of fulfillment. I'm enclosing a duplicate of a picture the official photographer took of me recently for insertion in my identification book. I carry it to show to doubting French sentries so they can look at me and at the picture and talk to each other for a half hour or so and decide finally that I really am "Yutenong Reynol'" just as I
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