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were so close together & yet strangers, but I believe it was good.  It needed the atmosphere of Dublin to create the friendship.  At that time, in Florence, I was studying hard & "going out" a good deal & I don't think I should have appreciated you or your family.

Our ways of living would have been too different, but in Dublin, it all seemed perfectly natural and consequently there was not the necessity of having to get used to the difference in a situation, which would have been the case [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] in Florence. Now I should love nothing better than to see you there.

No wonder you dread having [[?]], but perhaps you can ward them off by keeping your