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to him about me, and that I can be sure you employed all the phrases befitting the description of body and mind of "la belle Marie"! He received my photo – your parents knew on March 10th that you were wounded and missing. They prayed for you very very often – that God would spare you to us. They received your first letter written on Apr. 30th on Aug. 1st., also a cable on the 9th Aug. telling them you were discharged from hospital. They wrote on May 15th but their letter was lost. He wrote again May 27th. Did you receive it? They heard of you by a card from an Officer." etc. – She is a dear sweet kiddie. I think her people intend to hang onto her though – Say she is not strong etc. She has one brother. Old 'Vasseur' is a coal-merchant They have a little property but live in a very unpretentious place

I'm getting on reasonably well at French I can keep a conversation going fairly well – I often correspond in French and occasionally

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