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think people who do that are much
happier as they grow older than if
they wait until everything is smooth
and rosy. They have much more
in common and so much to look
back upon, and people can be happy
when poor. I'm so happy now, but
I'd be out of my head with joy if
you just had your arms around me
this minute, you old darling lover.
Oh how I love you, I can't say it
too often, for I think it all the time.

I found a letter from Emily
Harris, she is back from Europe and
is staying with her family in Bay Head,
New Jersey, their summer place, she
has been trying to locate me and
failed and thinks I have sneaked