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[[?]] into a little canal lock between. He found it particularly [[excited?]] so the [[?]] weather you've been having. 

The fellow downstairs is waiting his M.A. their ([[?]]) on our typewriter, and in return I asked to be allowed to use their automatic laundry. That is a good deal, saving 50 c [[cents]] a week and time. His wife is an expert seamstress and will take the job of putting a new lining in my winter coat; the old one is [[fent?]] becoming shreds. The other "girl" downstairs let me use her pigmy sewing machine any time I want to, no I have about all the devices on hand, don't you think? I don't have much time to visit them but they are friendly people. The folks [[?]] the hall, however, are not very pleasant, but we don't speak much so it doesn't matter. After I had painted my living room the wife decided she wanted to paint her living room that way, too, and did!

Well, I must get to typing Russian translation

Love, 
Dorie

Transcription Notes:
A few words I could not decipher, including the crossed-out word and unsure how to notate a word being inserted into the middle of a sentence.