:50:11
Davy, it's from Papa.
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Read it out loud.
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"Dear boys,
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it was good to get your letters.
:50:31
Good to hear all is going well."
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So much has changed
since you were here.
:50:38
The war still seems remote to us
on the island, but yet closer.
:50:42
There are a few more refugees
coming through here now.
:50:46
The Germans are sinking
a lot of ships
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in the stream
between here and Florida.
:50:50
Sometimes at night you
can see them burning.
:50:53
Often two and three at a time.
:50:56
There isn't enough navy,
British or American, around
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to do anything about it.
:51:02
Work has been progressing
steadily and well since you left.
:51:05
I've completed five or six
pieces to sell in New York
:51:08
and am now working very hard
to get ahead so we can fish.
:51:13
I love the sea and would
not be anywhere else.
:51:17
She's my home, my religion.
:51:20
Perhaps, correctly,
I should say that she is
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what we have instead
of religion or God.
:51:26
She creates life, and she ends it.
:51:30
She has beauty and great mystery.
:51:34
And she is eternal.
:51:38
This island is a lovely place.
:51:41
But the house is empty.
:51:43
I think I know almost all there is
to know about living alone.
:51:47
And I have known what it is
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to live with someone who you love
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and who loves you.
:51:55
I've always loved you boys.
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But I've never before realized how
bad it is that I do not live with you.