7 Jan 67

Dear Lydia

It is now 9:30 and I shall have to get up for the mid watch at 11:30 and i really should go to sleep, but I cannot. You crazy little girl I love you very much and cannot think of all the ways to tell you and how good you make me feel just by writing and saying hello. After 2 1/2 years that seem like a breath and 3 months that seem like an eternity, I do not sleep a night without you. Given the whole world or as much of it as I have seen, and all the people in it, and I have met many different kinds, there is no one to whom I would give my one and only life but you, and no where but by you that I would spend it. The rest, the real part cannot be said but must be lived as we have lived it - with gentleness, patience, the taking care of one another with tears and with so much fun and pleasure. I can hardly wait to show you.

Love and love again
Michael