Now it’s Dot’s turn to write two letters in a single day. The first was actually written just after midnight, reporting on the events of the day just ended. The main news was to tell him that she’d had an especially enjoyable evening, considering that he wasn’t with her. She and four other girls went bowling and she scored the highest of all of them on every game. She tells Dart that her mother used to be the champion female bowler in Greenwich with an average far higher than Dot’s highest score. “I guess I didn’t inherit her skill for knockin’ ’em down.”
She’s missing him and his letters something fierce! Today at the bowling alley, there was a sailor with his girlfriend looking very happy together. Dot was quite jealous until she realized that someday people will look at her and Dart the same way.
Yesterday she got her invitation to the prom at Andrews to be held on graduation weekend. Naturally, she won’t be going, but she suggests that when he’s home, she and Dart should learn to dance. Then they could have their own private prom and dance every song together. “Don’t mind me – I couldn’t thrive without my day dreams,” she says.
Today a co-worker brought in a photo of her future daughter-in-law from England. She was beautiful! Dot protests that the Lend-Lease Act was not supposed to lend all the young men from the US to beautiful women overseas. The least the other countries could do was to either send some of their own men over to us, or return our guys. Dot prefers the latter choice.
She’s going off to get some sleep and perhaps to dream of Dart. She’s heard one never dreams of a person one thinks about constantly, so she’ll probably have no luck in the dream department.
Her second letter was written near midnight at the other end of the day. She and El went bowling after work and bowled four games. Dot’s high score was 139, a definite improvement over recent games. As soon as she got home, she was ready to go back and try again, and was able to convince her mother to join her. Since her mother had not bowled a game in over eight years, Dot was confident she could beat her, but Ruth prevailed. Still, Dot has the bowling bug and hopes to get good enough to play for the Franklin Simons team.
El had a phone call from Don today while he was on a 24-hour pass to his parents’ house. They talked for about 20 minutes until Arthur picked up the extension and said, “If you keep this up, you’ll have to postpone the wedding for another year just to pay the phone bill.” They hung up in a hurry.
That’s all for now. Tomorrow is a big day, with letters from both Dot and Dart.
