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

1942-10-24 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 3

will need to, get myself swamped as much as possible in a job I'll have to stretch to fill so I'd try to go out of town with Red Cross, maybe. But if you are in U.S. on any assignment it seems so important that I try to be with you. The war necessarily causes things that affect each of us. You have to adjust to all the military, and I to the waiting civilian role. Marriage itself is a large adjustment. Then after the war with our two separate sets of experiences and reactions to those experiences we have to go on again with the adjustments needed to make a home and family in a society itself all changed by the war and its aftermath. If we can be continuing our family adjustments and deeper acquaintance and understanding in the days of the war and having more things and experiences in common then, the number of differences to be understood and worked out after the war will be fewer and easier. Not to mention it is more pleasant to live along than to live only in the past or future. And if

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will need to, get myself swamped as much as possible in a job I'll have to stretch to fill so I'd try to go out of town with Red Cross, maybe. But if you are in U.S. on any assignment it seems so important that I try to be with you. The war necessarily causes things that affect each of us. You have to adjust to all the military, and I to the waiting civilian role. Marriage itself is a large adjustment. Then after the war with our two separate sets of experiences and reactions to those experiences we have to go on again with the adjustments needed to make a home and family in a society itself all changed by the war and its aftermath. If we can be continuing our family adjustments and deeper acquaintance and understanding in the days of the war and having more things and experiences in common then, the number of differences to be understood and worked out after the war will be fewer and easier. Not to mention it is more pleasant to live along than to live only in the past or future. And if