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nurse by the time I get out. I'd like to go to Europe, or sing, or just plain get married. Did I tell you that Jack & I would be going steady if he were home, but he didn't think it right to ask me while he was away. He's really an awfully nice fellow, perhaps you will meet him. He's coming home in August unless the Navy changes his plans again!

I guess that's about all except mom doesn't know about the steady part so keep mum or arrid [[arid]] or something. 
Love, 
Mabel. 

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It was terribly swollen & now it's all black an blue, bruised mostly on the inside almost up to my gums. Around the edge of my lip, it's all greenish, where it's settling. I'm a pretty sight, I must say. Of course I got the usual amount of kidding about who hit me, etc etc. But I can take it. 

Well, when are you planning to come up this summer? You aren't going back in the fall, are you, I mean you're going to stay here and go to Radcliffe?

Once more year of school for me & I'm going to see if I can get into Mass. General or McLain. McLain is the mental branch of Mass. Gen. Hosp. It sounds interesting but I don't even know if I want to be a 

Transcription Notes:
Arrid is what I think she wrote in the last line, but should be "arid". "Arid" can mean lacking interest or imaginativeness - an arid treatment of an exciting topic.