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Elsie ate breakfast again at
our house this morning, all
is smooth as oil about our
home premises in anticipation
of the new house.
Tomorrow is "Plans day", and special
clinics, Wednesday Commencement and
Banquet Thursday my
cards will read M. D.
I wonder if you can realize
what a joyous satisfaction it is
to have attained the degree
which I have striven so for
during my youth and young manhood.
I feel as if I had been climbing up
a high mountain, slipping and slidding,
each year making some head way, and
now as a last strong effort have
reached the summit where I can

stand up erect on my own base-
ment and whirl my diploma
in the face of all past
obstacles, declaring to the world
that my life is for a purpose
which all humanity respects
and that my life companion
is one who was chosen
by God for me and whose
Life is sacred as a portion
of a completness which we
alone shall know.
Darling Grace, how I do delight
to telling you just how I love
you and what happiness it
is for me to look forward to
our life together.
Interruptions have been such that it