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suitcase and a blanket roll and sending Henry out to get tickets and baggage checks. I said a few hurried farewells, wouldn't let mother come to the station with me, and carried my two brothers over to see me off on the 9:03 to Springfield.

I was very sleepy and still kept awake in anticipation of soon seeing my Ruth, and in thinking over Framingham ^[[visit]].  Everybody had been so good to me. I never had made ^[[so]] many friends and even now there are very few people whom I believe care enough about me to think about me twice - outside of my immediate family, I mean.  Yet everyone took it upon themselves to wish me well and to take a lot of interest in what I was doing as [[underline]] that[[/underline]] worked out all right and made me feel good. I thought of my mother and how brave she was in trying to "send me off with a smile", of my dad's admonition to "take care of myself", of my sisters' sweet