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safe home soon, but I am fearful they never will.  its gone on so long now, I am afraid he is lost forever to them its worse than death.

Pa has just come down to take his medicine & eat his little cup of mush & now he goes upstairs to bed.  he is tired & fussy but guess he will quiet down & have a good nights rest.

In the morning pleasant & not very cold. the gale did not come here that they predicted. we had a very peaceful night & slept.  Pa was determined to turn off all the heat, so our rooms were cold to get up to this morning.  he thinks he knows, & is still bound to have his own way, as he always has been used to.  he will live the longer by so doing maybe.  Ma

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Stoughton March 22nd 1932

Dear Doris

This is the end of a rainy day.  it has grown warmer since morning & melted all the ice from the trees.  the rain poured water into our seller.  so when I went down after coal, I got into it not thinking any thing about it untill it felt cold to my feet.

It looks like clearing.  we are to have gales of wind when it does, according to weather predictions.  which are not always reliable.