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me considerable concern. However, as I look back on it, perhaps it was as well that I listened to the urge that was with in me for it prompted me to make the burden upon my father as light as possible by practicing economy as much as lay in my power [?] during the coming years of my study and the compensating pride which my father took in me when I came back from Europe as well as the care I was able to take of him at his end from the results of my brush, all lead me to the hope that my choice was not entirely an unwise one. I think that American boys are slow in developing. I was now twenty and I only just awakened to my first sweetheart.  Fannie Parsons was a handsome blond who has since become a splenidid