5/11/44 #72 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
From: Marty
To: Cy
Darling:
Could you see it in your heart to let me spend $500 for some Maple furniture and have an apartment of our own? Please do answer me right away on this, honey.
It’s what I’ve wanted ever since you left, but I got tangled up otherwise. Entanglements are broken and I’m sure it would be ok with the folks as I’d just as soon be in the same building or a neighboring one.
I’ve tried for over a year now to down the idea of having my own surroundings, but I’m afraid the feeling is too strong dear.
Please understand I don’t want to take advantage of the fact you are so far away, but I can’t keep these thoughts to myself any longer. I’ve hinted but you’ve never paid any attention. It wouldn’t be just for me it’s for both of us. If you come home only for a little while it would be a home to come home to. If you came to stay, then we could decide whether to sell the stuff or hang onto it. Is it too much to ask, honey? I’ve got to have some roots somewhere.
Am looking forward to going north as I miss Mummy and Daddy very much. It worries me too about Mummy’s foot. I can help her a lot.
Undoubtedly I shall go back to work, and I hope you’ll be a sweetheart and understand your little kid as you always have. Don’t forget, that I’m doing my share of understanding these days too.
So glad you are happy again and I hope everything comes up to your expectations.
I love you more each day and today I realized that next month it will be 4 whole years. Gosh honey, you’ve really been my own Cy all that time. How much we’ve blotted out of our lives by those 4 swell years!
Hey, I’ll send the photo album and cement as soon as I get home.
Yours forever ‘n’ ever. Marfy