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Hi Sweetheart -

It's just 9 pm, but after another evening of movies in advance of our Berlin trip,
I'm already good and sleepy. So this is another nice leisurely "good night" letter, after
which I can go to bed and dream about you all night long! I got two letters
today, one in the afternoon mail, so I'm really spoiled, and so very much in love
with you!

In answer to your question, I think your letters have all come from the vacation
time - I hope all of mine from Paris arrived eventually, allowing for the Easter
tie up in mail deliveries - I wrote long letters each day and it would be really
too bad if they never come - so let me know! - And you are so right, darling, about
how wonderful and exciting it is to belong to someone - I could never have imagined how
different life would be, or rather is, with love at its center and circumference.
Sweetheart, you are so precious to me - I can never really tell you how much you mean
to me. Though I guess several kids on the Burg have a vague impression of how
far gone I am, because I can't seem to stop mentioning to the
more sympathetic listeners how I feel. And it's really true my darling, that over here
I see so much more deeply and clearly what you are, what I am, why I love you, and
how right we are for eah other; from now on I think what we do together will have a
new sense of permanence, of guiding the future, and yet I hope that it continues to
be a spontaneous joy and just plain fun as it always has before. Thinking
back to the situation I mentioned in Paris (couples staying together), I think Anne, that
the rightness and pureness of what we share (or of what we save for later) is even more
important to me now. I think you realize it always has been very important ("sacred"
is the way I feel about it too really), but over here, with the sense of strength and
endurance that our love has acquired, the conviction and determination of this
faith is even greater. I don't mean to set our love on a pedestal, and I know we
will have times in the future as we have before, when our natural expression
of our love for each other will be a problem for us in the conflict of our desires. But
we know now sweetheart that patience builds many wonderful things in love, and we
know too that we have time to wait if necessary, until our joy can be full and right
in marriage and a long, wonderful life together.

Gee, I'm glad you could have such a good talk with George Offen. As you
know I count him as one of the finest, most kind-hearted and thoughtful fellows I
have known. Sorry to hear of his bad luck with Stephanie, but I'm sure he'll
bounce back as usual. He's got an awful lot to offer the right girl when that
time comes! Is he by any chance going to be at Stanford for grad work next
year, or is London still his destination? I hope he'll be around - in any
case say Hi for me when you see him next. And don't run out of 2:30's
on late conversations! - Oh and don't worry, I know how mononucleosis
is most easily transmitted, so I'll proceed with caution! Actually the final
tests for MAC were negative for mono and she's O.K. now as far as I know. You
needn't have worried anyway, sugar, (I'm sure you've had many sleepless nights of