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plex [[the last page ends with "com-" so the word meant is "complex"]] as it was the first experience of its kind that I ever had and under unusual circumstances.

I do not know how far my sympathy falls short of yours but as you seem to know I must take your word for it that my cup is small and does not overflow.  But why should one be punished for lack of capacity:  Your feeling is of more moment to me and outweighs my interest in the child as it is as yet but a thing of the mind, some thing that does not exist in itself as you do.  You and it are one now and my feeling is all for you.  What you feel and think compels me more than a picture in my imagination of a possibility in the future.  You are the child you are the mother you are that which

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interests me, for you my heart is heavy.  After it is born then we [[strikethrough]]can inter[[/strikethrough]] will be interested in it as a thing apart and if it were something you desired we could think of it in that way now possibily. [[sic]]

I expected that Dorothy would have a hard time of it as I've heard that women of her type always do.  Are you expecting to see her sometime?  

Your letter sounds as if you are working to [[sic]] hard, please do be careful.  Get someone to carry the old newspapers down for you.  Am sure you can sell them to any rag man; or why not use them for fertilizer.  You might make the suggestion to Mr. Rosenbaum.  

If you are at the League any day soon, would you please get me a