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

1942-12-29 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 5

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we have youth, health, finances. We brains and adaptability, more important than the first three things as any or all of them may be taken suddenly from us. But good minds and willingness to adapt to necessities are irreplaceable and "unpurchaseable" assets. The more natural blessings we have, the more we must account for our use of them.
Love is the biggest blessing we have I don't believe either of us knew as much of the real nature of love as we learned in this short year. Love of each other hasn't mad us narrow. I think we both see now all the better the examples around us of both love and the lack of the much more keenly and with more understanding. My feelings have matured unbelievably in our marriage and I knew more of life than many brides. The whole circle is never completed of course until life ends. A big step in the experience of love, having a child, we still know of only in theory. I never knew before how much I needed a husband or what joy & satisfaction there was in being the wife of a good man who loved his companion.

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3 we have youth, health, finances. We brains and adaptability, more important than the first three things as any or all of them may be taken suddenly from us. But good minds and willingness to adapt to necessities are irreplaceable and "unpurchaseable" assets. The more natural blessings we have, the more we must account for our use of them. Love is the biggest blessing we have I don't believe either of us knew as much of the real nature of love as we learned in this short year. Love of each other hasn't mad us narrow. I think we both see now all the better the examples around us of both love and the lack of the much more keenly and with more understanding. My feelings have matured unbelievably in our marriage and I knew more of life than many brides. The whole circle is never completed of course until life ends. A big step in the experience of love, having a child, we still know of only in theory. I never knew before how much I needed a husband or what joy & satisfaction there was in being the wife of a good man who loved his companion.