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Palos Park, Ill. Sept. 18, 1925

Dear Sherwood - Darn your Dark Laughter! I thought I had just damped down a lot of thoughts that have been tormenting me lately & now you've gone & blown them to a flame again. My whole outlook on life seems to be undergoing a change. I was for so many years concerned too deeply with myself & my problems, for life in general to be much more than shadowy to me. Now I am about overwhelmed with realizations that life is cruel, chaotic, wonderful, beyond all belief. And I am wildly trying to find a good solid rock to plant myself in; one that won't do more than shake a little in the earthquakes.