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<opener><dateline>Sunday<lb/>
24 December 1944<lb/>
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<salute>Dearest Gretchen &#8212;</salute></opener>

<p>How’s my honey today? Okay I hope. 
This has been a beautiful sun shiny day
and very warm. It doesn’t seem possible
it can be the day before Xmas. We had 
church service this afternoon beside the 
train on a side track. Played Gin Rummy 
again and lost what I won last night! It
does help the time to go faster tho.</p>

<p>That fellow by the name of Davey, wasn’t
he the one who dated Nadine that night and
wanted me to stay at the Blackstone with
him? I wanted to see him but didn’t get a
chance to do so.</p>

<p>It is almost time for me to go on
guard so will soon have to quit. There
really isn’t much in the way of news
for that matter since there are so few 
things we can write about. I can say
the scenery has been very pretty and hope
we can take the same trip by auto some
day together. Merry Xmas to you all, have 
one for me, and I’ll be thinking of you.</p>

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