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The Advance Aircraft Company
Troy, Ohio

Dear Hattie;

Have continually put off writing you because I couldn't think of something to say or rather how to say it. I guess there are times when words spoken or written just don't mean anything.
When I last saw you I wanted to say or do something that would make it easier for you but never felt more helpless in my life.
I have always had great admiration for the spirit you showed during the starvation(?) days in Lorain and Medina but want to say that the courage you displayed when last I saw you
transcended anything I have ever seen. It was magnifiacent [magnificent].
Just now the world must look pretty gloomy. It may seem as if it never again will be bright. But if you can only bring yourself to realize
that there is something devine [divine] in death and that George