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no doubt that we are even going to be immeasurably happier with
each other. We had several tasters last year of being apart from
each other - & we always found that it was no good, & you, like an
angel from Heaven, came up to me in Cheshire, & in Liverpool
& in Northern Ireland. I shall never forget you jumping off the
train at Beeston Castle, with a tennis raquet in your hand. and
the Exchange Hotel in Liverpool - how lovely & marvellous you
were, my sweetheart - I feel warm & thrilled when I think of
you. And our pleasant, funny, sometimes sad, life in Warrenpoint.
Bicycles, Guinness, & soldiering, & Maurice's gossip, Muriels
wife, & Frank Harrisons sister, & my C.B, & the sergeants
dance, & dozens & hundreds of things if only I had thorwn
myself into things in the 5th, & forgotten about the 7th, & done
a bit of bumming - I suppose I would still be there &
so would you. Oh dear - one never knows what is for
the best. Perhaps this seperation is - obviously.
All the time I am away from you, I am remembering more &
more, thinking more & more, of all we have done together.
As I have toldyou before, I think - I'm sure that I have
changed in the last few months. At last, art does interest
me - though I have always been interested in your work - &
so do books, & reading, & seeing things & places. And no longer
do Iw ant to go out much, or even at all. I only want to
write to you, & think of you, & read for you, & save money
for you, & work for you, & keep well for you. I'm sure you
will like me better darling! And we should have so
much more in common with each other, & be most wondeful
companions to each other. Everything is so much more
innteresting & more fun, together isn't it?
And then when we come together again - we shall begin
with a wonderful new honeymoon. Knowing each other so well,
& loving each other so much - & yet having forgotten each other