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feeling for you and my sheer joy in loving you and being loved was looking
to keep silent. Being in love over here makes the whole experience a different
one I think. Its less "fun" in a sophomoric unthinking joe college
sense. But more important its more real and lasting more mature more
real joy (and sorrow too on occasions) more meaningful in every way
because I can share it with you and try to view it through your eyes
and talk more about it with you in our letters. Im stead of just a busy hectic
great experience soon forgotten in large part it becomes a stage in
the growth of our love something we can share and relive for years to
come.

The weekend with Many Ann was much better than the one before in
Munich. We got along perfectly want to see that same sort of things
spend on equally small amount of money etc. And we had fun together
to in a way that I couldnt have had with most other people on
the group. I can talk to MAC about you and about us and shes an
interested listener. And also she can talk about her and Bob a little
and we sort of compare experiences and reactions. It really makes it
more pleasant for me to be able to express some of my feelings with it
would otherwise be pent up until June 11 (when there will probably
be a confusing and awkward excess of feeling anyway) or lost
entirely. And Also we can sometimes understand ourselves and our
respective. Love lifes better as a result of our conversations. For
example I gather (as the result of a very "indirect" conversations in which
each of us [sent?] of of spoke most "between the lines) that she and Bob confront
many of the same problems in controlling their physical relationship
that we did and that [their?] parents would be just as surprised by all
this as ours would etc. Its comforting in away to know that others
face and resolve the same problems we do though each love is for
each couple unique and personal. Also on a less personal level
it was interesting to exchange reactions on different types of art and
architecture on the various people we met etc. It helps