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it, you can never be great.
 
I love you and I hope in you & I look to you for comfort, though I may endeavor to be self sufficient, and I cannot believe that the day will never come when you will not resent my embrace when you feel blue, and when we can reason together without disputing or insulting each other.
 
I kiss you with my best love. I am very sad.

You can make me happy. Not by presents or love when I do not need it, but by that finest thing in us, sympathy.
 
I have gathered some wild roses along the way where I found the one I gave you as a token.