Dot is over the moon with joy! She was awakened this morning by Helen Peterson throwing a stack of 11 letters from Dart onto her bed! (She also received a $10.00 money order from Gordon for graduation.) She declared that she would always have a wonderful day, if every morning brought a pile of letters from Dart,

Although much of the news in his letters was the same news she’d already read in his letter to his parents, she was delighted to read it all again. “Some of the humorous passages, of which there were many, I read to your mom and pop, but I didn’t think the idle ‘sweet nothings’, as you call them, would have held much interest for them.”

She writes that his mother and Burke came to her graduation ceremony along with her own mother and Cynthia, visiting from Oberlin College. She says Burke practically went cross-eyed, looking at all the pretty Andrews girls. Now he’s trying to make arrangements to get out to Andrews for a date night. “If he succeeds, I hope he and his date hit it off as well as his brother and his date did. Or should I say as well as his brother and and his brother’s roommate’ date did?”

He has her permission to collect that congratulatory kiss whenever he wants. Although she received kisses from both her mom and his after the ceremony, they somehow just weren’t the same as one from him!

She doesn’t envy him the tropical life. Sometimes she feels discouraged when she sees more snow, but she’s cured of her self-pity by thinking of Dart and Gordon in the hot South Pacific.

Because she has heard Gordon’s description of the Marines aboard his ship, she wouldn’t be shocked to hear Dart’s, so he needn’t hold back.

How sad that he was gypped out of most of his 21st birthday, but the day made quite an impression on his folks. They shared with Dot a beautiful letter he’d written them on the occasion, and she reports that they were thrilled beyond words by what he wrote. How she wishes she had his gift for writing!

Speaking of wishes, she would pay nearly any price not to be a blusher. Yesterday when reading a letter from Dart aloud, his mother got to the part about hoping Dot would keep her promise to wait for him. When she heard that, she blushed to the boiling point. Ever since, his family has teased her about it. She curses the fate that reveals all her inner-most feelings by the redness of her face.

She concludes the letter with a gentle chiding that he should ever doubt her promise to wait. She’ll never send him a letter telling him that she’s married someone else! He better get that through his head right now!

To get him the mail promptly, she didn’t take the time to check for mistakes, “but it’s no mistake that I love you.”