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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-02-02 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

would be if you were here. Alone I suppose we couldn't have an apartment like this. But we shouldn't need so much room and we could have a nice smaller one. Oh, I wish you were here, doggon' 'tall! We have a great time, honey, don't we, wishing we could share our homes with each other? I'll remind you of that some day when you try to run me out of the house for teasing the cat. 
I wouldn't dare tell you how near I have been recently to downright nostalgia (high-brow for homesickness - I think). After being away from home ten years I thought I had become immune. It is many years since I have really worried about getting home further than to have the normal desire to go whenever possible. But shucks! I never had a wiffles to go home to before and here I am with the business for which I came finished, everybody about me talking home

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would be if you were here. Alone I suppose we couldn't have an apartment like this. But we shouldn't need so much room and we could have a nice smaller one. Oh, I wish you were here, doggon' 'tall! We have a great time, honey, don't we, wishing we could share our homes with each other? I'll remind you of that some day when you try to run me out of the house for teasing the cat. I wouldn't dare tell you how near I have been recently to downright nostalgia (high-brow for homesickness - I think). After being away from home ten years I thought I had become immune. It is many years since I have really worried about getting home further than to have the normal desire to go whenever possible. But shucks! I never had a wiffles to go home to before and here I am with the business for which I came finished, everybody about me talking home