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A week ago last week was my birthday, and Barbara, John Hollis's wife, had invited me for dinner. Her mother just died April 3, so I thought it was especially sweet of her to give me the celebration this year, as she has done for the past two years also. She give me -in addition to the dinner, flowers and cake, a string of fine, goldlike beads that are very becoming. I am constantly surprised that such a fine girl exists in this day and generation.

Bunny after graduating last December from an occupational therapy school in Boston took time off for a good vacation and a look around to decide just where she wanted to locate and go to work. A few weeks ago I was surprised to get a card from her from Fort Sam Houston in Texas. She is a lieutenant, it seems, and was down there taking basic army training. That was all I knew until I got a letter form her father a few days ago telling me she was due about this time to arrive at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington to go to work there. He is please that she will be able to help where help is so sorely needed. I rather imagine she may like it there, too. She likes to travel. She planned to go to Europe, but finally have up, much to our relief; but she did vacation in Nantucket and Bermuda. I hope all goes well with her.

Theodore, her father, has been and still is very ill. He had pneumonia at first, and was at home with two trained nurses for some time. Then there was a shortage of gas, and, as their house is heated with has, they went to Statler Hotel to stay. There he became worse again and was taken to the hospital. One of his lungs has collapsed, and the doctors planned to operate. Amorette, his wife, however, begged them to give nature a week or ten days more to inflate the lung itself, and by a great miracle, it did. Theodore writes that he believes he would not be here if it hadn't been