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and returned the note and am waiting patiently for the letter.

Well to tell the truth Mother, I am getting very neglected in writing home but it is but natural that I should not hearing from home in a month. I have become discouraged. I know that they letters are not miscarried for others receive letters from Chicago in just a week after they are written and why should not I. If I don't hear from home often they will hear from me more seldom ever than they have lately and when I don't