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to-morrow you will be 26.
My ain't you getting old though.
You dear kid, you are
only a boy yet, you are
my boy and I love you
with all my heart and
should only wish I could give
you a big kiss right now.

[clipping pasted on letter:]
"CHORUS girls are wanted im-
mediately by Blake & Amber."

I cut that out of the
paper and have applied.
I got an answer from
them and they have
excepted [accepted] me. Next week I
will go to see them, and
they will probably put me
on the Columbia [underlined] in Oakland. [underlined]
It is the life I have always