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Atascadero Mar 26
Dear Gae:
Will try and write a few lines tonight. I have been looking for a letter from home for a week, but have not gotten any yet. I don't know what the matter is. You don't write. It is oughful, [sic], lonesome here all alone. I have rented a garage. Pay $3.00 a week all furnished. Have been working
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every seince, [sic], last Tuesday noon. They only pay 45 cts. per hour and work 8 1/2 hours. If there is any work down there, let me know . I'll come back. It costs to, [sic], much to live here. Wish I had someone with me. Then it woulden't, [sic], be so bad. I went over to the river where we used to camp. No one there now. it made me homesick.
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I went up to where your lot is yesterday too. They have not done a thing with it seince, [sic], you were here two years ago. The trees haven't grown a bit. Wish I could trade if for a auto. It is so hard to walk so much. My feet bother me so. I don't know what I'll do when it gets to be hot weather. The man I'm working for said Sat. he wanted to keep
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me if he could, for he thought I would just suit him. But, of course, you can't always tell. Wish Rocky was here. I think he could get a job. If he comes up, send the tent and my miter box and saw and plow and bits for the plow. There is going to be lots of work here, they say, but I don't think so. If I had a job,
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down there, I would come in a minuet, [sic]. Am finishing a house inside one of those cement houses that was started when you were here two years ago, down near the depot. I'm not very far from the Smiths, about two or three blocks. The Smiths are going to move this week, over near the railroad bridge, the one near where we camped.