Thursday, 3 & Wednesday, 4 February, 1944

G.H.N.                                                                                (96)

3-2-44

My Very Own Darling,

Your letter dated Jan 1st and your air letter dated Jan 25th arrived yesterday.  The latter you hoped would arrive on Feb. 6th but the A.P.O. must have worked overtime as it only took a week to come.

Darling, you sent me a beautiful letter.  I agree with you when you say that our love has grown stronger in the last years and into something really deep.  It is something that I have never experienced before and would never have believed that a love such as ours could really exist. 

All I dream and hope for these days Darling is the day when you come home and we can really start living in – we hope – a new and better world.

It will have to be a better world.  The public would not stand for conditions as they were pre-war.  Just poverty and unemployment everywhere.  I think that this war will have taught a lesson to many people.

We have one thing to thank the war for and that is our meeting.  At the moment, though, I am not thanking the war for keeping you away from me.  I suppose though, that if Hitler and his cronies are kicked out and everybody can live in peace again it will all have been worth while.

This waiting is a sure test of our love for each other, don’t you think?

In your letter also you mention how happy you have been in the last two years.  Darling you have also given me untold happiness.  I cannot imagine now what there was in life before I met you.  A certain poet once wrote “Life is very sweet, brother.”  Just how sweet life is one does not realise until one falls in love and I do love you, Darling.

4-2-44

I started this last night and it is now early morning.  2 a.m. to be exact.

7 hours later

I really intended finishing this before I came off duty but it was impossible.  I have had a hectic time, one patient died and another one's blood transfusion decided to stop.  I have two new nurses on the ward, not very good ones I am afraid, who are about as much good as a sick headache.  As I also had 36 other patients as well – well I did not know whether I was on my head or my heels.  However, I will write you a sea letter in the near future.  Until then – all my love Darling.  Your own, Grace  xxx

 

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