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& hugging & kissing when shall in some slight degree compensate for this long, long, long deprivation. Perhaps it is well that we have been separate so long, for it shown us how much we love each other & how necessary we are for each others happiness. I think too it will make us more anxious to do all in our power to contribute to each others progress. It seems to me now that I shall be much more anxious to try & develop my good angel wife than ever before, for never before has she seem to me so good, so pure, so loving, so noble. And then if she is well it seems to me that each night as I come home from my business, that dear good wife will have such a programme arranged us with the aid of her husband will make both of us good, happy & noble. And I not right Abby dear?