Dearest—This is my last piece of V mail paper and I don’t intend getting anymore. With the others I wrote to Joe DePaolo, George Gross, and Steven Trabaylso. I sent them all V J Day letters. Isn’t it wonderful that it is all over – really – and how much we really have to be thankful for – I don’t mean only us, Dearest, but all of us have in America. Did you hear the radio broadcast to the Armed Forces this evening? Wasn’t Bing’s “White Christmas” beautiful? It started me dreaming again of the possibility of our being together then – and that “frosty cloud” you spoke of. – I called Edith today, we’re going to take our lunches Tuesday and eat at school. Some of the others, I suppose, will go out to eat. - God bless you, my sweet – and let you come home soon

– Mary –