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9 I love you too well to be willing for you to go back on to the prairie to live if I think you will not be happier there than elsewhere. My love for you perhaps makes me oversensitive upon this subject. I know too I shall not be happy there with you unless I know you are. If I cared nothing about you it would be different. My organization is such that I enjoy enjoy intensely & suffer as keenly; & to me there is romance & poetry about home life with wife & children in a home that we love. You know me well enough to form some idea of what I must suffer in a place we call home but which you do not & cannot love for such a place is not home & cannot be. You know how dear you are to me & how anxious I am to have you happy. I am not rich or will neither are you, but we live in a world not only of romance & poetry but also in a world where our

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