Saturday, 4 December, 1943

2364226                                                                                       85.
Sergt. S. Bristow
Headquarters
15 L of C Signals
Cen Med Forces

4 Dec 43                

My Very Own Darling, 

I was so excited when I got your letter this evening & learned that you were at last a fully fledged nurse, my Darling.  I only wish I was near enough to show you in a certain way (that you can guess) how really pleased I am.  I wish I could give you a real big hug & kiss in celebration. I bet you are pleased that it is all over & done with aren’t you?

I feel happier tonight than I have done for a fortnight for I have been watching the mail each day expecting a letter with the exam result in it.  I should have sent a telegram to you if I could, but the service is suspended until after Christmas.

As you say Darling, it is one more stepping stone passed towards the goal we have set ourselves.  There is only one more really big one left now & that is for me to get myself home as quickly as possible.  That day is getting nearer, however, & with it that happy day we are both planning & living for is also getting nearer too.

Yes, I suppose you must have felt a little bit jealous when you saw how happy your brother & sister-in-law were but never mind, Dear, we shall be just as happy as them even if we have to wait just as long.  The waiting is tiresome, I know, but of one thing I am pleased & sure & that is that you can stick the waiting.  I am very proud to feel that you can do it, Darling.  The last nine months have seemed almost endless I agree, but this being apart will I am sure make the time we shall spend together later all the more enjoyable & thrilling.

It is just 10 p.m. here – 11 p.m. in England, & I suppose you will be sitting on your darkened ward & if you are not too busy be thinking of me.  I always think of you more in the evenings Darling, perhaps because most of our happiest experiences have been at night, haven’t they.

I have just been out with a couple of pals to have a drink on the good news.  We all drank a toast to you & to our future.  It was quite a merry evening.  I only wish, however, Darling, that instead I could have had a celebration with you; a nice dinner somewhere & then a cosy night in front of a blazing fire, just the two of us in the firelight’s glow, talking of & thinking of the times that are to be & thrilling each other by our embraces & kisses.  But that’s wishful thinking!!  More tomorrow. 

Congratulations again Darling.  Yours Stan xxxxx

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