Sunday, 20 February, 1944 - Grace

Grimethorpe                                                                        (100)

20-2-44

My Very Own Darling,

As I write this I realise that my short stay at home is nearly over.  Ivy, my friend is staying with me and in a short while my Mother & Father, Ivy and myself are going to pay a call on the Bristows.  Ivy is a grand girl – she is older than I am – she is 30 I believe this year.  She has heard such a lot about you and the rest of your family that she must go and prove that everything I tell her is correct.

Last Friday I went to Sutton to Kits house and Ivy came back with me yesterday.  We had to wait two hours in the bitter cold for a bus from Sutton.  We were half dead when we eventually arrived home.  The weather is terribly cold.  It cannot make up its mind whether to snow or not.  Do you remember the time we wished it would snow so hard that the buses could not run?

Darling, how I wish you were here now, it could snow as hard it liked – I would not worry.

I guess I must be feeling depressed tonight.  I feel that this war will never end and that everything will be like this for years and years.  However, do not take any notice of me – I do occasionally get these moods of depression.  I know that it is because I am missing you terribly Darling and I am afraid that I get very impatient at times.  I try to remind myself that patience is a virtue but I find that patience at ones work and the patience required when waiting for somebody one loves dearly are two different things.  With the former, if I stand still and count ten it helps a lot but with the latter one just waits and waits and waits and I feel that something is eating my very heart out.  I guess that something is – my love for you.

It is over a year since I last saw you Darling but it seems like a century.  It cannot be so much longer before we see each other again can it Darling?  Until we do – all my love is yours, I know that I have all yours.

Ever yours, Grace   xxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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