Articles Book III - Pg 1-117 (Adoptees) - triadoption

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Junc 29.1944
ll you unly kncw how very IIIII~~I I wan1 lo
scc yo11 and hold yo!^ clnsc. Swccll~cort you nrc
cvcrylhln~ lo lnc. I am working nlghl and day so
lhal I can pay lbc moncy I owe and hnvc you my
loo lorever. I hopc you arc wcll.
1 drcamcd an awlul drcaln aho~ll you. Don'l IcI
anything happen in you. You and I arc all each
olhcr havc.
hlomce loves you dorllng, wllhoul you lllc
could no1 go on, You and I havc had a prclty
ruggcd llfc ynur 2 rhorl ycars. Dul we wlll
havc somc hrcaks.
I havc prayed cvcry nllc lor Cod lo help
us and b my dolng lhc rlghl lhlng llc Is go1 :g to
help us: ram eohllng lor go,I as soon as I gcl pahl.
I gcl pald on thc 5111.
Darllng don'l have Iorgellcn mc. You will sonn
be hnvlng a 2nd hlrthday.
It rnms lhal ou know Ion huw nnbohy wanlcd
you, and how armor1 alone wc wcre except lor
Elltabc~b, md rcmcmbcr how my slslcr (your
aunllel came I*CBII~C I was hcr only slslcr ond
that I had dlsgraccd thc la~nlly and had lo bc told
every day.
The long wall bclorc you wcre born was hard. I
' was slayln(l wlth Aunl Evelyn and rcmcmlrr how
ashamcd shc was lor her lrlcnds to see mc.
2 I talkcd lo you thcn us I am lalklng now and I
lhlnk you havc l~ndcrsloo~l lrotn lhc bcglnning. Dy
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Ihe gracc of Csd aud by your slanding by, we arc
going lo havc u lltllc homc .%IC day.
Slncc the day I knew or lhc day Dad knew
X' I havc no1 had a honw and, slnce you came;
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ncill~cr have YOU.
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Rcmcmbcr, uur slaying In lhc hospilal 15 days
hccausc wc had no onc lo lake us ho~r~c wllh
Ihrm, and lhm dcor Aunt Evelyn lwk us bul sald
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she would nul wall on us an11 that I would havc lo
gel oul as sonn us I was ablc III work.
b I never wcnl to bed when I come lt.on~ the
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hospllal. I sluycd up all day cvcry day, washrd
yours and nly clolhcs, hcllwd mop, clcan yards,
anylhlng, unlll you wcrc llvc wrel:s old and we -
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yuu and I - renlcd a iwo.rtn~t~~ upslnlrr aparl-
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mcnl. No jast lwo rootns and wllh lhc lllllc plcces
ol lurnllurc wc col~ld gcl logclher slarltd llvlng
$ lhcrc.
k I got a lllllc eolorcd girl 141 lurk allcr you .and I
8 wcnl lo work. You wcrc only live wccks (,Id. I
rc~nc~nlxr how lhal I worhc~l all day and vamc
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hutnc and yn11 an11 I slaycd leg~'lh~r a1 nlght.
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Wc wcrr Lupgy. Tl~cn you wcrc slck wllh mld
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and you sccmcd lo alt~osl chokc aI llmcs and I
would sll up 1111 nlphl olrald lo go lu slccp, nu1
wanting to go lo slccp because darllng wr! wcrc
0 one and arc sllll onc.
And lhcn ramc Col. neverc all lhc way lrutr~
Eglln Ficl~l wlll~ Ca l Nautnan Thc Col., lhcn a
Major, lclllng ltlr [dw m!la.h ho low~d as and
wanlcd us wllh hltn, not lclllng IC he was still
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+ marrlcd.
I wnnlcd lhc best lor you "ll~~!rh" SI wc wcnl.
llc was stlll ~r~arrlcd un~l hls wllu and son
llvlng with hl111 I wcnl lo wurk lcavlng you
5 $ wllh the lady 11s gol lor us is llvr wllh. Lzvcry
0 a Ihlng was gsb~g all rl~lhl llnlil LC l~cgan lclllnfi
peoplc lwhllc ilrisklng) Illat you wrrl! 111s and that
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3 8 he lovcd us. Then whcn bc war sober ond kncw
.o IhaI hc hall lalkctl loo much.
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Ilc and 01ls ~ atr~c CavI. Nau111an sald thal
$3 $ you irnd I wcrc (he ones to lcavr YO Ihoy pilck~d
O'Q us up and l~ak as III Cr~!slviuw and put 11s nn a
' * train.
.. From III~I day 1111 ILls, wr havc l~cen ~IISIIFII
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around. We wrrc haplly just 111~. two of qs at111 the
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lllllc Negro girl who cried wl1r.11 u~! left and lhey
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~H."uo~IcII Ill away.
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tlarllt~g, IIIIII'I I~trgt-I your t~~~nlhcr IIIIUIIICC). I
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lovc you. Yea tl