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"Write soon!" I'm still puzzled and see if you can find the address of the Robert V Beals which would untangle lots of things for me.

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Dear Doris,

Hope you are feeling fine. I am ok. Don't take my shipmates letter too seriously but he is correct. I'm sure you meant no harm in the way you wrote the letter. As when you stop to think your questions about the war and censors are too inquisitive. Why I have never seen you or know you. So never ask any questions or suggestions any of [[strikethrough]] any [[/strikethrough]]The such agian [[again]]. By the way how old are you I bet you are 16.  Take a guess for my age? I have a future wife back home awaiting for my return after the war. No I was not from in Indiana. It was Illinois. I do not know of anyone by that name as yet. As I've heard that there is a Beals in the Seabees someplace, besides myself, he was supposed to be somewhere in sanfrico [[San Francisco]]. The reason I ask

Transcription Notes:
BEALS This was the letter in response to hers to a different Robert Beals, which got to this Robert Beals by mistake. Both were in the same boot camp area. He apologizes in a later letter for this response.