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times' Square and parted after an appointment to meet on the following noonday. I subwayed from the still uprooted white light square to the far reaches of uptown New York. I just naturally hugged my parents and the sight of them was the beginning of the joyous 9 days. Needs must tell them all about it and the first couple of hours was spent in describing happenings since I kissed mother "so-long" under the approval of Miss Liberty in September. When my aunt (Mrs. Levassun) appeared it was signal for another reunion. And then it was a good deal of a case of one reunion after another.

My aunts' son Euclide had become a Sergeant in Co. 13. 309th infantry at ^[[79th Division]] Camp Upton; my cousin Elmira was in New York still - I would meet her later; the home folks were still very much at home and - so my mother gave me the message - all very eager to see me in my new outfit. Euclide's wife and babies were living within a few blocks,over on Convent Ave.