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Florence Italy.
Nov 2 - 88.

My darling Jamie,

Did you think your old Auntie had forgotten you, and your birthday?  And your dear Mamma's too which came three days after yours?  You know one has to think a good while before the time & send things home from over here and just at the time when I might have sent you each something, I was having to think of so many things that I forgot your birthday was coming.  But I 

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before in their lives - skipping over the water so softly with beautiful palaces and water all around them.  I suppose your Mamma would hold her nose sometimes, because of all the dirty things they let fall into the canals, but when one has been in Europe a while one gets not to mind such things.

One sad thing happened to me in beautiful Venice. I lost one of my teeth! This one - I will make the hole it left - [[sketch]] [[caption]] lower jaw [[/caption]] It is the left side, but it dont make me look much uglier than usual. I broke it off with a button hook - but it was very brittle. But dont ever touch your teeth with a shoe-buttoner. Kiss Harry and Cecil for me and Mamma too. 
Your most-loving Auntie.

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