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I can eat anything now and am beginning to enjoy food after four months of hating it. December 26th Annotated in pencil 1942 IMAGE *W*S*C*

Irene, you darling! There are some presents one admires, some one is doubtful about, and very few that one runs to meet with open arms. Why, yours is simply a mercy to me! We have been buying the most miserable substitutes for jam. Orange marmalade full of ginger, grape jelly made of grape juice and gelatine. You have saved my afternoon tea from distruction.