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August 20, 1945

My Dearest Darling Wife,

            Hello sweet little angel, how is my darling little wife. Awful, awful sweet I know and fine I hope. You had better be dearest. Gee darling I just received two of the sweetest letters from you and I was so darn glad to get them. Gosh Honey that is the first mail we have had in about four or five days now. We heard we might not get any for a couple of weeks and I am sure thrilled to know that isn’t true. I also received three from the folks dear. Yours was the seventh and eighth of August dear so that was pretty good time. Gee darling your precious letters mean the world and all to me and they are so darn sweet. They make me so awful, awful happy dearest and make me feel so awful wonderful after getting your precious letters. Sure hope you are getting my mail all right now dear. Won’t it be heavenly dear when we are back in each others arms and won’t have to write letters any more. You are so darn sweet dolly and I love you so awful much.

            I am feeling pretty good now dearest and getting along all right in every way now. I have plenty of everything now dear. Well Honey it has been raining off and on all day today. Not so awful hot so that sure is a relief. Sure hope you are having some nice weather now dear. Well Honey I got my finger opened up this morning. There was sure a lot of infection in it. It doesn’t hurt near so bad now but it sure is sore. I sure do hope it gets all right now. I have a little place on one of my lower eyelids that started coming there a couple of months ago and it never did go away so I had the doctor cut that this morning to so I guess it will be all right now. I have to go back to see him in the morning. Boy we sure have a swell doctor now, at least I think he is. He really takes an interest in his men and really looks after you when you go to him.   

            Well Honey it looks as though the Japs are finally going to start laying down their arms. I expect it will take quite a while to get it all straightened out. I sure do hope that they get started to sending the men home pretty fast now. I was sure hoping I would be able to make it by Christmas but I know I won’t now from the way things are going but it ought not be to long after Christmas. We at least have a pretty good idea dear and we know that every day is so awful much closer now. Gosh Honey I still just can’t make myself hardly believe it is true. I have been hoping and praying for the end for so long, it just seemed like it would never come. Gosh Honey we have everything planned so perfect and when we get together now, no one will have any say over me in any way and we will be free to do what ever we want to. I’ll be able to walk back into your arms as yours and yours only dear, the one thing I have been wanting for so long. I will meet you in our room dear and we can stay until we want to leave and then we will go out home and star around until we are ready to go on our honeymoon. We are going to have a month or better doing whatever we want to dear and really celebrating in our own way and we sure will be deserving of it all after all this time. I left home a civilian and I guess I will return the same way only still in uniform. Gosh Honey we won’t really be able to believe it when we get in each others arms and know it is for good and that we won’t have to be leaving each other after a few days together. Darling we will be so darn happy and everything will be so wonderful.

            Honey you was telling me in your letters today that you never had received your check from the government. No darling I never had your address changed cause just about the time I was going to have it done we got a new clerk and I didn’t know just how much he knew about everything so I just let it go. It might be that it got lost or something dear. You be sure and let me know now darling and I’ll see about it. If you don’t get it I imagine you will have to write in about it but you be sure and let me know now and I’ll find out for you dear. Darling do you think I should have your address changed now. I sure do hope you have it by now dear and sure hope you don’t have any more trouble.

            Darling I sure do remember in our room when I had you in my arms and told you of my love and that you was all I had. Honey dear you just wait until I get you in my arms now and can tell you, tat won’t be anything dear. We both know how much we mean to each other dear and darling I know you will always wait for me. You are the most wonderful and most adorable little wife in this world dolly and Honey I am so awful proud of you. You are so awful wonderful to me in every way dear and always doing every thing in your power for me Honey. It won’t be so long now dear until I will be able to start repaying you and doing things for you instead of you doing for me all the time. Honey dear I know that there isn’t a couple in this world or never will be that love each other more than we do. Our love is real love to dear, a love that is true blue and straight from the heart. Gee darling isn’t it wonderful that we were able to get married before we left each other and now we can be together from the very first minute on.

            Sure hope this finds you feeling swell dear and everything going along all right in every way at home. I want you to be awful, awful careful now dear and please don’t work to hard now.

            Honey dear you are so darn sweet and I love you so darn much and you know I always will dear. Gee darling won’t it be heavenly when we can hold each other so tight and kiss each other one time after another. Honey dear I know God hears our prayers and will keep us safe and bring us together as soon as possible now. Please take wonderful care of my precious parts dearest, gee but they are wonderful and I love them so darn much. Yours are fine dolly, miss you so darn much. Honey you are the sweetest and most adorable little wife in this world and I love you so darn much and you know I always will dear.

            Well sug I guess I had better close for this time and I’ll write you as soon as possible now. I’ll be looking for your precious letters now dolly. Please be awful, awful careful now dearest and take wonderful care of my sweet little wife. Remember now dear chin up and always happy. Tell all hello dear.

            Love and more love to my sweet adorable little angel.

            Loads and loads of love to my dearest darling wife I love so much.