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Ned Simmons [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] wears his purple quilted satin dressing gown.

The paths in Springfield are all brick around this section of the city anyway, and the trees are too lovely for words. Rachel says they live beyond the line of gentility but lots of the houses on this street are perfectly lovely old colonial so I think it is an exaggeration to say that-

The Field's house is very [[strikethrough]] nice and [[/strikethrough]] comfortable and pleasant with some very nice old furniture rather obliterated by nick-nacks. The rugs in the [[strikethrough]] library [[/strikethrough]] parlor are very [[strikethrough]] nice [[/strikethrough]] good and there are lots of books.

This has been a long letter hasn't it? I have been writing for almost two hours-

[[right margin]] Dear darling little muddikin I don't like to think of you all alone and am quite sure now I ought'nt to have come. I long for day after tomorrow when I can see you though it is lovely here at the Fields and they are all so kind. 

Your loving Baby
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