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[[strikethrough]] TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
42nd Day  324 Days to come

Jan 17

I've just written John that I'm probably coming to England any day now because I've gone & done it again. It is really quite funny to get knocked out in such unserious & yet persistant ways, the last being a day when I felt on the top of the world like the cow jumping over the moon because of my glucose injection, & ending up with a cracked nose & blood pouring down my throat! My face is a series of blue balloons. 

Somehow I think God is gently hinting that I am hopeless as a racer, & that he made a mistake when he gave me my face, & is now making every effort to make a better job of it.

Well at least I stayed & tried my best, & am one of the Olympic 8, & no one can take my place, & bad luck is at least half to blame, & even thus far it has been a real experience. To make a long story short I am going to recuperate for a week here, & if I can't ski my fastest by then, I will pack up my troubles in my old kid [[kit]] bag 

[[strikethrough]] WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
43rd Day  323 Days to come
Abraham Lincoln, Born 1809 - Georgia Day (Ga.)

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& leave it all behind as a bad job.

I can only be an unecessary Reserve of which there are three extra as it is in the Olympics, & the only thing is whether I should stay for the F.I.S. which hasn't half the appeal, but I should stay for the Team's sake if I can get good enough, & yet to spend five weeks here doubtfully just in case I might be needed then - seems a long time of unecessary misery to pull through. It is ironical that I should have just gotten that wonderful cable from mum [[strikethrough]] saying [[/strikethrough]] congratulating me & telling me to do whatever I want.

I am so overcome by her understanding, & her wish to make me feel that whatever selfish thing I do is justified. First she cabled to make me feel welcome & wanted at home, because she thought I was coming & needed begging, & now that I'm not, she justifies & understands just as well. And my reward to her is to neither eat my cake nor keep it for I am not there for her, nor am I an