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[(Top Left Corner)]Hope the pictures get back safe again (signed) Ma

[(Top Right Corner)] G D Y B

Stoughton April 18th, 1933

Dear Doris

This eternal rain is still going strong. will it ever clear and be pleasant again. I have been out hoeing up the garden for my tomatoes, in spite of stormy weather.  my daffodils + tonquills will be in bloom soon. also the spice bush + forsythia are fast coming to bloom. grass is growing. the mosquitoes will come next I presume. Every thing is quiet even Pa is off by himself up stairs most of his time, he comes down at meal time + is cross untill I get him something to eat, then he goes back again, he feels better off by himself. nothing seems right to him when he gets with others. I dont know how painting the house will strike him. it will certainly excite him. but it certainly ought to be done. I may have to call it off its hard sometimes to know what to do. my courage grows poor I have been through so much opposition since he has been this way. he kicks at every thing nothing we have done so far has suited him. but sometimes it sums better to go right along + pay no attention he has not the power of reasoning. he only has the disposition to oppose. 

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