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Brittania Street
Manly
5th Jan 1944
My Own Darling Husband
It is ages since I received a letter from you & naturally I am worried. I pray Alan dear you are not ill.
You see I have been anxiously awaiting a reply to the letter I wrote you about the 12th Dec telling you I had lost my rings. May didn't know about it till I came home & that was a week later & she has already received a letter from Jeff saying how sorry he
was to hear it. I thought at first you might be too mad to write to me, but I know you are too big a man at heart to act like that. I know my Alan. I will say once again how sorry I am, believe me I am still a little bewildered, and annoyed at myself for not waiting till I was out of the water.
I had a muddled dream last night darling. I dreamt you and I were to be married and I was on my way to the church in a train, of all things. There were people with me and they were all astonished because I had no wedding spray. I was telling them all the
bride-groom had forgotten to send me a spray (which, by the way he doesn't do), and I wasn't going to buy my own. I was cool, calm & collected, but my friends were acting as if the ceremony wouldn't be just right