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Dear Kate:

Tom told his mother this morning at the breakfast table and she put down her saucer of coffee, and come over to me and kissed me, and said, “Faith, the Gosoon, I thought he never was going to do it. Sure he’s not the son of his father, or he’d a asked you the question the second day you was here. I’ve always wanted a daughter and now I’ve got one that couldn’t a suited me better if I’d ordered her making.”

She was so happy, she spent the whole morning making plans for the future, how she would pass part of the time with me and Tom, and then when we got tired of her, she would go over to see you and Jack. And Kate you sure will love her. She is just a dear little Irish woman who has always had a great big husband or a son to stand between her and anything that might hurt her. And just think, dear, I won’t never have to be alone no more, never have to worry about things all by myself, cause I, too, am going to have a great big man all my own.

Your happy
Nan.

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