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Show 245 many troubles and the latest worst trouble getting hurt so seriously." She would like to bear her children's burdens and to face their trials for them. (By now, we think, she must be pretty good at handling burdens and trials, having had so much experience.) Her lack of contact with Milford is outlined in her question as to how he is getting along, plus a request that she be told about him next time, and the suggestion that she is going to write him soon. Her husband is only a few months away from his 82nd birthday and probably living alone in Salt Lake City. Ellis speaks of Christmas and, having explored the possibility of interrupting her class to come home for the holidays, has decided to remain in Kanab and finish, then go on to give a class in St George, then return to Salt Lake about mid January. She suggests that if the house is not rented and Olea comes to Salt Lake, perhaps she and her family could stay there-possibly even until Ellis's return. The place would make a good setting, she thinks, for a family Christmas gathering. She asks them, rather tentatively, what they all want for Christmas, wishing she could be the Santa she once was, and adjures them not to spend money on her this Christmas when it could better go to satisfying real needs than to "useless" things. Yearning for a return of their blessed companionship she affirms, "But we will have it," and ends with this suggestion: "Tell Murphy to kiss you for me." On Christmas day she addresses a warm little note to Ladybird and mate and birdlings. |