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and consequently want to try my hand at some new subjects. Somehow at the present I feel that I am developing fast. You know in a thing like painting a person will go along sometimes for years without improving much then all of a sudden they will feel a sense of growth in their work and more power to express their ideas. The only way I can account for it is that I am in love and therefore my nature is deepened and my blood flows faster and I am more alive. You see what good you have done me already. You know several musicians have written their best music around the time of them in engagement to be married and I am sure that men must be more imaginative at that time. I told mother the other day when she was down at the studio that the reason I am painting is because I love you so much and she said she thought that was so.
 
Do you still like Texas as much as ever. I think you must get very homesick sometimes because after all there is no place like home and no matter where you are and how much you are enjoying yourself yet I think home thoughts are the best. Darling you haven't changed in regard to me have you? The only I have changed is to love you more and more all the time. Since you have been away I have had lots 

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