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From No: Q52
Name: Lieut AE Hooper
Unit or Group: Angau Dobodura
Date: THursday 13-10-44

My Loving Lonely Wife,

- you've heard of the Emperor who had everything money could buy, yet felt miserablly unhappy? My life runs on those lines on this goddam isle. I have surrounded myself with every comfort calculated to make a soldier's life happy, but the comforts only affravate me. Excepting the high pressure of work, it's a planter's life. I've a lovely radio, private estate of 1,000 acres, jeeps, excellent food, sport & entertainment for the taking, interesting & influential friends, & personal servants - I'm flattered with the prestige of a Lieut Colonel. Yet I scheme to trade it all, soon as ever I can, for a mainland posting. There I'd have the prestige of a common office boy, but darling I'd have y͟o͟u͟. I'd be gloriously contented, I'd feel ike a Prince that's found the