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

1942-12-29 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 6

I don't want to be a Polyanna. If you came home at once everything would not be perfect. But that is only in little things and we love enough and know enough to keep such irritations down to dwarf sizes so they can't run our family life to unpleasantness and ruination. Love, trust and the fundamental principle of squareness and honesty make it possible for us to live out happy lives in our marriage. 
It is hard for us to have to be apart so much. I hope when you get out of the army that neither of us ever has to take a job that means we can't be together some time every single day. First I couldn't get away from my appanoose children, then mother had to be considered in all our plans, then the Army took over our lives. But if last December I could have had an exact preview of what was to come, I wouldn't have chosen any other life but to be your wife. If you feel that way too, I am content. The trials have made me more understanding and my life richer for the

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I don't want to be a Polyanna. If you came home at once everything would not be perfect. But that is only in little things and we love enough and know enough to keep such irritations down to dwarf sizes so they can't run our family life to unpleasantness and ruination. Love, trust and the fundamental principle of squareness and honesty make it possible for us to live out happy lives in our marriage. It is hard for us to have to be apart so much. I hope when you get out of the army that neither of us ever has to take a job that means we can't be together some time every single day. First I couldn't get away from my appanoose children, then mother had to be considered in all our plans, then the Army took over our lives. But if last December I could have had an exact preview of what was to come, I wouldn't have chosen any other life but to be your wife. If you feel that way too, I am content. The trials have made me more understanding and my life richer for the