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8/
with you + I dont you?
Your letters are gloriously loving + sweet +
thrilling about the past + the future. I do
not for a moment feel complacent about your
love- how could it when it is such a vivid
valuable + wonderful thing. But I do feel very
sure of it now. + it has the stirring affect
on me that it must make myself worthy of
it + also strive all that time to keep it at
this height + depth - by loving you as evenly +
most by being interesting + alive + so favoring
our companionship + [ ? ?] together by
looking after you & being kind & thinking about
you & by always being your lover & making you
feel that every ounce of me is yours. I
do hope I can come up to standard I want
to come up to.
Darling Barbara. I think of you so much &
so lovingly & tenderly & admiringly, longingly &
passionately. There is no one in all this
world like you really darling. I am not
just noticing this; I think it myself. I
believe it to be true as well. I was
sitting in a cafe in Tel Aviv the other day
with Ben, & waiting to go & see "The Letter".
And it was a fashionable place, many girls
came walking in & out, some of them pretty

8/
with you + I dont you?
Your letters are gloriously loving + sweet +
thrilling about the past + the future. I do
not for a moment feel complacent about your
love- how could it when it is such a vivid
valuable + wonderful thing. But I do feel very
sure of it now. + it has the stirring affect
on me that it must make myself worthy of
it + also strive all that time to keep it at
this height + depth - by loving you as evenly +
most by being interesting + alive + so favoring
our companionship +