Dear Stephanie Dear Paul

<I>.In flight with American Airlines<br>10:00 p.m. 27th April 1949</p>Dear Stephanie<br>I hardly know where to begin. I am on a monstrous machine that is taking me thousands of miles away from you.<br>Did you stay to see us take off? After I left you I had to wait in the passengers' lounge for nearly an hour and I never spent a more miserable hour in my life! Parting may be sweet sorrow but I don't mean to be parted from you again. The next time I hold you in my arms you won't get away-ever!</p>Merstham 29th April 1949<br>Dear Paul<br>I wonder where you are now. I suppose still traveling ever farther away from me.<br>You know I just didn't get used to the idea that you were going-even right at the end when you kissed me goodbye I just felt numb. When I went back to the field alone to wait the truth came over me and I felt so miserable.</I>