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Show BOHHJI3ID ... (.-.- For Used Ceo or II f ;S ir j from my business to spend more time with Mother during those middle years of our marriage, she would months., You've heard joke about some of our problems, but at the time they seemed pretty serious. We tried to laugh then, and the fact that we tried together probably helped us over some awfully rough bumps. But neither of us found much comfort when our first baby was stillborn, or when the doctor told" us after you were born, Helen, that there could be no more children. Those are bitter blows, and unless two people have really deep feelings for one another, they are enough to shatter the dream. Every once in a while I read letters in the "love" columns in the paper. "I've been married four years . . . have three fine children, but my hus- band doesn't thrill me a bit." I'm never sure whether one should laugh or cry! How awful it would really be to carry on a courtship for 30 or 40 years! Or to eat a wedding breakfast every morning of your life! The trick is growing together, taking the bumps along with the bangs and spreading roots. You've read a lot about mature love, and I'm sure you and Carl are better prepared for life than we were. Men with his training will always be in demand. Moreover, Carl's parents and yours have been trying for the feelpast 23 years to give you certain ings about life. Since no parent can teach experience, all that one generation can hope to give another is a sense of security born of a happy home. I think we get an A for effort I hope we do for achievement! Certainly there will be problems which will tax your love and understanding to the breaking pointv just as there have been for us. AH you remember about your first Su You were too young to understand fully the situation at home. I sent you away even though I couldn't afford it, at a breaking point! Perhaps your mother's condition wouldn't have been so complicated if the doctors had known then as much as they do now about emotional prob-lePerhaps if I had taken the time ms l ': ' never have become ill. I learned an expensive lesson the hardest way possible. It took half a dozen specialists neurologists, psychiatrists, and others to show me that I had lost my values and almost my marriage. Suddenly I realized that the reason for working was not to earn more, or to buy a bigger house, or to send 'you to a better camp, but simply so that the three of us could live happily together. People we three people became the big thing. ' The Good Lord was kind to us, and after Mother recovered we joked about our financial troubles. In comalparison to sickness they seemed most pleasant. But you didn't think so. Remember how you cried when we sold the new house to pay the medical bills? But your mother and I remember something else about the day we turned over the keys to the purchaser. We drove , off in the car together, happier than we'd been for years. Later we agreed that we had tasted the real fruit of mature love: giving .up something we loved for someone we loved. Mother has been reading over my shoulder, and she says I ought to tear this letter up and start all over again. She says this is no way to be writing to a young lady in love! Well, maybe she's right, Helen, but I don't think so. I'm too old to start anything over again! That's a bad joke, and you can see that my humor isn't improving. So I just told Mother why Fm mailing this to you the real reason, I mean. It just came to me while I was laughing. This is a letter about love! What your sentimental father has been trying to tell you - is simply this that the important things in life are hot won easily; that the important things in life are those which you Folks, tear thte poqe out now and cany it with you far your : :) W$2 us n X J V this sticker I oh ma windshield, j Used Car. 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