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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-02-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

of your loving. At the risk of seeming to be indecent I'll confide to you that a young husband away from his wife so long goes through a torture of longing in more ways than one, Why should I hesitate to tell you about it? You're my  dearest and my mate and my wife 'n everything. And that kind of longing is as natural as can be and made eternally strong through the need for preservation of the race. It's love, too, the love of mate for mate. So there come times when one remembers with extreme vividness the delivious moments when he was fairly drunk on passion, and long to feel them again. Before marriage the longings are strong by indefinite; afterward they are concrete.  One knows. Fortunately, the torturing spells don't last long. One fights through them and becomes calm again. But that is not the way nature intended they should be treated - Good night! This is getting intimate. Tell me when you are too much shocked and I'll put a halt to this bared soul and body stuff. I never was quite this frank on the subject with anyone feminine. But again, why shouldn't I be with you? I love you completely; I am willing to share my every thought with you. Any hesitation is due only to the fear of having my frankness misunderstood and what I tell you looked upon as coarseness. Husbands and wives, though, ought to be able to talk about sex and passion without indecency. 
Ye gods, belovedest, how you do put

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of your loving. At the risk of seeming to be indecent I'll confide to you that a young husband away from his wife so long goes through a torture of longing in more ways than one, Why should I hesitate to tell you about it? You're my dearest and my mate and my wife 'n everything. And that kind of longing is as natural as can be and made eternally strong through the need for preservation of the race. It's love, too, the love of mate for mate. So there come times when one remembers with extreme vividness the delivious moments when he was fairly drunk on passion, and long to feel them again. Before marriage the longings are strong by indefinite; afterward they are concrete. One knows. Fortunately, the torturing spells don't last long. One fights through them and becomes calm again. But that is not the way nature intended they should be treated - Good night! This is getting intimate. Tell me when you are too much shocked and I'll put a halt to this bared soul and body stuff. I never was quite this frank on the subject with anyone feminine. But again, why shouldn't I be with you? I love you completely; I am willing to share my every thought with you. Any hesitation is due only to the fear of having my frankness misunderstood and what I tell you looked upon as coarseness. Husbands and wives, though, ought to be able to talk about sex and passion without indecency. Ye gods, belovedest, how you do put