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enough. Now for renewed youth and strength! Dr. Lowie, anthropologist in "Are We Civilized", which Sampson sent me to read on the boat, balances up advances with drawbacks. He says, among others, the average length of life has been prolonged and more men undergo prostate operations and more women those for cancer. Applies to the two of us, but I'm stronger today at 60 than I was ^[[insertion]] 17 years ago [[/insertion]] before my operation for cancer (and I never guessed it was cancer till you causually referred to it when Mrs. Rolfs died) - I have just got back

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from the [[underlined]] hardest [[/underlined]] physical feat of my life - and I am counting on your operation's reducing your age 15 or 20 years, too. Miss Niles says you expect to be in the hospital two months.  I hope you can sit up in bed part of the time and be comfortable enough to read.
Isn't it a blessing that Mr. Swallen can look after things as well as he does? The way that boy has developed since he came to us is remarkable, I think, - I wouldn't swap him now for a dozen Hotchkisses - H&C are pretty good "developers" I surmise, but we couldn't