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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, November-December 1942

1942-12-15 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 1

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817-19 St. S.E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa December 15, 1942 Dearest, A new location for the writing desk tonight is the kitchen table in Hazel and Earl's apartment. They certainly have a nice place. Kitchen, bath, living room and bedroom - with lots of plug-ins and storage space built in. I've been over helping her with govt work. She said in as much as that is what she wanted done we ought to be as good as the boys and call it by the same name! They are having fun planning a little place all to themselves. We have missed that so far, but we had the richer experience of being with mother when she needed us. And we can have the newness of being along and planning our own home when you can come home again. So we'll get double experiences if we just allow time enough to elapse so we can live twice that way. I'm not sorry a single bit our life together had to be the way it was. If you could have missed the army business it would have been wonderful, but since you had to do that, and there was no choice about that, I wouldn't have wanted to change anything else we had to get figured out or done. No letter yesterday or today. That is a longer spell since Saturday than there has been some time. I know you write when you can so I've no feeling to complain. But whenever I don't hear for a spell the thought always comes whether you are being moved or not and if so what the situation is. I don't worry but
 
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