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the child, & if she gets it & marries again?  What a mess. The trouble in my opinion was in the beginning, Ed was not in love with Emily, he hardly knew her when they were engaged, he was in love with Jean Struthers, & when he came over here for the maneuvers after his engagement he used to talk to me about Jean, for ever, & hardly spoke of Emily. He even told me he had been in love with Jean & engaged to her, & that Katharine wrote to him & told him of Jeans flirtations with another man when he was away, of course I never believed this, but I do think that perhaps at one time Jean might have 

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