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Dear Doris, Darling, The first thing I have to say is/ written to you sooner. After reading 2 pag/ to take an aspirin and I have had a sp/ You tried my patience for 4 pages! Now/ you can tell I am writing on a cut-up pap/ find any other paper wide and long enoug/ Boy, have we had scorching hot w/ and inhabitants of Arlington County are burnin/ though. Yesterday I borrowed the hose from/ didn't know it.) to get back to the subject - I bor/ plants. The hose reaches from the back porc/ and I had a time adjusting it. First I won/ squirt water on the tomatoes along the fen/ and swoosh! the water would squirt all over/ tomatoes. Then I dragged and tugged until I/ all the muscles in my arms (ha!ha!) to try/ that stretched all the way to the end of the gard/ but that didn't work. Then I tried tilting the nosle [[nozzle]] just a slight little, ting, bit. Tho/ unscrewing until Ker Splash! The rubber stop/ rat. I immediately went in and changed/ luck. (I finally got part of the tomatoes u/ including Delmas, Carroll, my second change/ than Delmas asked me to take the electr/sweep/ the living room to the back yard - (thr/ of metal he had attached to take up the son/ If you don't skip it Yesterday he decided he/ rest of the afternoon cleaning out his boat. I/ mother and Carroll together had gotten/ trying to water her flowers. Well so m/ Now precious sugar lump, I will t/ Elaine, and I went down town to see "/ enjoyed the movie. Red Skelton and/ funny. Red Skelton took some dope/ [[majority of page is covered by a blank sheet of paper. Only word fragments can be seen]] /t the letter) /g /? /ge /d, /d[[?]] [[right margin]] Please write soon again. Make the writing slightly bigger. (understand)?
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