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2 It was in this wish, but so much better then I I am place them to coppy a paragraph to be sure I am right in the wording.
I am glad to tell you Ive am all well and our Hattie was of on her outing coming to see me while Jessie has gone to city and
will have a change of scene air, while Hattie is staying with me. Our new tenants who have taken all of the lower floor are
very pleasant and companionable 3 I was so filed with anxiety after hearing of the mothers death, I think I must have
written these lines of comfort just to ease my mind, and hoping they would be acceptable to all of you and give you a grain
of real comfort, as they have been to me. I committed them to memory so as to be sure I should have them at hand, when the
nights grew long and my thoughts grew too heavy to bear.