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[[preprinted]] [[underlined]] January 12 [[/underlined]] [[/preprinted]]

he had gone to the opera alone, played golf all day and that his home was on a hill and he could see all the city from his windows. His picture looks so nice on my dressing table.  I love my dressing table - from the hall it looks perfectly wonderful.  [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] with a oval blue rag rug in front of it.  There is a picture of George on one side  He looks so strong in football outfit. It is great big - and he doesn't look lantern jawed in it. He does write such good letters and we fight & tell each other the truth all the time we are together.  He likes me better since we were farther apart and just wrote each other instead of seeing each other so often. [[strikethrough]] George [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Bob]] looks old in his picture - but it looks like he has lots of hair - and he hasn't.  Bob thinks he has me just where he wants me

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[[preprinted]] [[underlined]] January 13 [[/underlined]] [[/preprinted]]

and can be mean then.  Maybe he will ask me to wear his pin when he comes back. (if he does) - and I will but I won't marry him because he is a german. I hate noteriety.  People are mentally constituted so differently that what some laugh at others dislike - but I really try to make myself think I act independently and don't mind at all what people say. Most people think I am real indifferent. I wish Johney Stephens liked me. He would if I had been to an eastern school and knew Chicago and such things. At home. it is all right but others places it isn't - Bob liked me when I was in Baker - and he said I was the first girl he had ever loved - He knew I was young.  I do hope he comes back. I want to feel dependent - Oliver likes me. He writes me specials and calls me Esther dear. I shouldn't have let him kiss me so much. He's frightfully inexperienced - he may really think he loves me. He says he's coming to see me in August before his school starts. He is going to Cincinatti next year. He thinks I am very different