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8.3.60
My Darling-
My gosh, here I am forgetting anniversaries already! I just checked a calender after being jotted to attention by writing the date above, and sure enough, yesterday was the anniversary of our first date! And fear not, I think about that first night aften- how natural and pleasant and how much fun it was Dinner at the $ House, bowling [I'll never forget your jumping up in that sharp looking green outfit and running out to give me a big hug when I got the first strike! That was a strike in more than one sense of the word, you poor little fish: hooked for life], and then back to the club for dancing and just sitting.
And then today is our next anniversary- our second date! We didn't waste any time, huh, arranged two at the same time! And this one too was pretty casual- deciding at the last minute to go to the show with Clyde- Bell, Book and Candle, nicht wahr?- and then to the clubs afterwards for cynamin toasted peanut buttered (?) biscuits, until I though I would explode. But most of all I remember riding in the back seat of Clyde's station wagon, forehead to forehead (never have I discovered such a cleverly frustrating position as that one!), me trying to get up enough nerve to bend down and kiss you. Didn't quite make it right then, but later on OH BOY! And you did pretty damn well for an amateur- sure had me fooled- and snowed completely! Gosh, my love, but it's fun to think back and reminesce like this. It's been such an unbelievable, wonderful, rich, growing year we've had together; I've grown to love you more than I could ever have imagined, more even than I imaged 2 1/2 months ago when I left S.F.

Got a letter from you today , so I've decided not worry about double pneumonia or car accidents or other such germ possibilities. And what's all this talk about me not being able to escape your arms when I get back? So who's trying! All I want is to be just there and stay there as long as I live. I know that will be apart again at times (maybe even this summer), but I hope it's never again as long as this, even during graduate school if that must be. The only reason I can enjoy or even endure being apart from you so long, dearest, is because I know how completely in love we are; with that solid foundation even this can work for good, for us both. Especially if we keep having anniversaries, to being pleasant memories rushing back. And from now on things get pretty thick, don't they?- West Coast Relays, Overnight symphonies, etc. Much to value and so much more a head, yet to be lived together. I love you!

Got up at 3:30 this morning and listened for 3 1/2 hours to the 2nd movement of the double concerts. I can read the score to this one and so will have little trouble writing up the paper today. Then may be a couple of hours tonight to study German too- wish I had a certain someone here to test me on vocabular, ETC!! Guess I'll just have to dream about that! See you in my dreams sweetheart.
All my love forever,
Your George