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

1942-12-24 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 6

after work I made a special trip alone to the shop to ask Freddie. He said "he'd see Joe Monday, never recommended a man to Joe yet he hadn't been satisfied with etc etc." I had good luck to find him alone at the shop just as he was getting into his car to go. I've done the asking now and action seems prompt. I'll not count anything on it and I don't believe many will know it. I'll not discuss it with kin or other friends as I don't want either consolations or sharp remarks on the subject. Whatever you decide to try, we'll try to work out and then whatever comes is to be and we have conscientiously done things as they seemed to be. I appreciate you'll sharing things with me so that I can count on it that no matter whether we are going to have to face good or tough things together you tell me first and straight. And not like that case I told you of my Coe friend whose soldier doctor husband sent for all the relatives and then broke bad news! Almost time to take Johanna down to the interurban. She has to be on duty in the morning so must go on the mid-

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after work I made a special trip alone to the shop to ask Freddie. He said "he'd see Joe Monday, never recommended a man to Joe yet he hadn't been satisfied with etc etc." I had good luck to find him alone at the shop just as he was getting into his car to go. I've done the asking now and action seems prompt. I'll not count anything on it and I don't believe many will know it. I'll not discuss it with kin or other friends as I don't want either consolations or sharp remarks on the subject. Whatever you decide to try, we'll try to work out and then whatever comes is to be and we have conscientiously done things as they seemed to be. I appreciate you'll sharing things with me so that I can count on it that no matter whether we are going to have to face good or tough things together you tell me first and straight. And not like that case I told you of my Coe friend whose soldier doctor husband sent for all the relatives and then broke bad news! Almost time to take Johanna down to the interurban. She has to be on duty in the morning so must go on the mid-