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to our Good Father that he enabled me to turn a deaf ear to the evil suggestions that knocked at my heart. It was for a time a difficult matter for me to help thinking that you looked upon marriage as having its obligations all on one side & that it was right for a wife to look upon her interest as separate from those of her husband & that he must expect no thanks from his wife for all his exertions or tokens of love unless they exactly suited her fancy. I had looked upon the marriage relations as a partnership where two loving hearts put in all they had & commenced life together not where their parents left off, but where their united means enabled them to commence remembering that their childhood home cost their parents long years of toil, & if they would leave an equally pleasant home for their children they must do the same, unless their parents had been so precuriary blessed as to leave them a home ready made. Neither your parents nor mine were thus fortunate. We were married. I put into the partnership all I had & fixed a part so that it could not be taken away form us even if we were unfortunate & if you survived me it must go to you. I also added to that amount some 3000 in cash & you also from your separate property added what you could. We went down to our farm I looked at its possibilities & was happy for I thought we might make it in a few years a pleasant home for ourselves and