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I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl, " he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.Erik Larson
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You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the prayer on your lips for it all to come back to you. It seems cruel, cruel, to give us such a vision; to let us dream and drift through heaven for six months, and then to take it out of our lives.Erik Larson
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No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.Erik Larson
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The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.Erik Larson
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But one thing was quite clear…” he wrote. “[B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.” Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.Erik Larson