Writing the War by Anne Kiley

Author:Anne Kiley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633881051
Publisher: Prometheus
Published: 2015-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

[Billee to Charles] October 26, 1943—Matawan

What an experience. No wonder Father John was so excited when he talked to me.

After lecturing you, I'm at a loss for words because I'll sound like a hypocrite, but this is the impractical side of me revealing itself; the Billee that wanted to drag you off to a preacher that Sunday night in Penn Station. It must have been exciting and I'd give a million dollars or more to have seen it with you.

You didn't say whether or not you were scared or aren't you talking? I wouldn't like it if you weren't scared.

Now that you are back safe and sound, and I'm reassured by your letter that everything is all right, I wouldn't have had you miss the experience for anything. Please, don't rush right out and do it again, though.

I'll bet that's the reason you went on the raid, just so you could brag to our “ball club” about your bombing of Germany. Four sets of twins—now that's going some. We've really set a goal for ourselves, I can see. I can see where I should have played “hard to get.” I'm not very smart, I guess. The first meeting left me in a daze. Say, do you throw all the girls you meet for such a loop? If so, the girls “over there” must be in a daze now, and really badly off.

I think you're mean not to tell me what “cheesecake” means.

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