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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-13 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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tween gasps of enthusiasm that the madame certainly had the figure - which in French is face - to take first prize at the international beauty show. I said, "Yes, madame, the girl looks all right, but she has a terrible disposition. She drove me to war by breaking all the china of my knob. Our fourteen years of married life have made me the grey-headed, subdued looking, old peckedhen that you see." But she wouldn't believe me. It must be those "Egypt-in your dreamy eyes" have her hypnotized. She's on your side. Her own old man came home tonight to spend a few hours. That's the advantage of fighting in your own country; you can run home for the night occasionally. Oh well, I understand we are to get leaves to go home for three months after we have been here twenty-one. You can begin expecting me to drop in about November 1, 1919. No, you needn't hurry about
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tween gasps of enthusiasm that the madame certainly had the figure - which in French is face - to take first prize at the international beauty show. I said, "Yes, madame, the girl looks all right, but she has a terrible disposition. She drove me to war by breaking all the china of my knob. Our fourteen years of married life have made me the grey-headed, subdued looking, old peckedhen that you see." But she wouldn't believe me. It must be those "Egypt-in your dreamy eyes" have her hypnotized. She's on your side. Her own old man came home tonight to spend a few hours. That's the advantage of fighting in your own country; you can run home for the night occasionally. Oh well, I understand we are to get leaves to go home for three months after we have been here twenty-one. You can begin expecting me to drop in about November 1, 1919. No, you needn't hurry about
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