Dart got Dot’s wonderful 8-page letter tonight, and it must have been an amorous one, because his paragraph about it was littered with !!!. And he wrote, “See, I have ! on my mind, too!!”

Today he was reading through some of her old letters to him, including the ones she wrote so long ago when he was a long-term patient in the Naval hospital at Great Lakes. Does she remember the dress she was making for the leave he never got?  Even back then she was chastising him for being so apologetic, but he has no idea what he was apologizing for that long ago.

“Have you ever missed me so much that you felt you just couldn’t write about it? That’s how I feel now, Dot. I, too, have X and O and * and ! on my mind.”

“Good night, Darling. There’s a tight feeling across my chest and my back that can only be relieved by holding you in one of our squeezing contests. If I go to bed now, I know I’ll dream about you.”

He adds a PS which says he hopes she’s over the worst of her bad days, and that they’ll never again be as bad as the best of the bad days she’s had. He adds three rows: seven Xs. seven Os, seven *s and three !s, saying “That’s enough for one night.”