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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, September-October 1942

1942-09-13 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

I'm really making progress at a good adjustment then I don't do so well and know I haven't achieved much over the days when you had not been gone so long. We have all the good memories to make life richer and give us more understanding. But we were cutt off so short, I guess that is part of the reason for the hardness of it to take. I hate to write like this but there is no one to whom I can talk honestly, and that is another hard thing when we've been able to be honest with each other and know we won't be hated or looked down up or thought queer for anything said. Today I had many pleasant things come to me and no unpleasant happenings yet I have an acute attack of wanting you. If I do like this I'll be nothing but a dull picture of self pity! I write like this and then lecture to the Red Cross about what good things people should put in their letters to men in the service! And Wednesday I'm to discuss for Red Cross meeting factors in families of servicemen and problems occasioned by the absence of the man. At least I know more than what the books say about that topic! I'll never be

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I'm really making progress at a good adjustment then I don't do so well and know I haven't achieved much over the days when you had not been gone so long. We have all the good memories to make life richer and give us more understanding. But we were cutt off so short, I guess that is part of the reason for the hardness of it to take. I hate to write like this but there is no one to whom I can talk honestly, and that is another hard thing when we've been able to be honest with each other and know we won't be hated or looked down up or thought queer for anything said. Today I had many pleasant things come to me and no unpleasant happenings yet I have an acute attack of wanting you. If I do like this I'll be nothing but a dull picture of self pity! I write like this and then lecture to the Red Cross about what good things people should put in their letters to men in the service! And Wednesday I'm to discuss for Red Cross meeting factors in families of servicemen and problems occasioned by the absence of the man. At least I know more than what the books say about that topic! I'll never be