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  • My Dearest Darling (Poem Found in My Grandfather's Letter)
  • George Ella Lyon (bio)

                                        Cubage, Ky                                        Aug. 22, 1916Miss Josie Wilder                                        Oaks, Ky

My Dearest Darling.I will now with pleasureans. your letterrec= Saturday and wasso glad to get another.

Darling you are allI have to think aboutand I am so hapy itdon't Seam as I everwill See any more troubleSence I have some one thatSays they will love me always.

There is no time I will everinjoy like I did Sunday eveningwith out I am with you.And I new if I ever talkwith you I would love you towell. … I can't be satisfideany more away from youmy Darling. … Good loverstogether is all theinjoyment on this earth.

Dear all is gone to bedwhile I am sitting herewriting my Darling girl,injoying the time not thinkingof Sleep. For there is nothingbothers me for all my studyis just you.

So be good Darling tillwe meet again and that willbe Sunday if I am living.Wrote with love and best wish

                              forever yours                                                Robert Hoskinsans soon)

George Ella Lyon

George Ella Lyon grew up in Harlan, Kentucky, and has lived most of her adult life in Lexington, Kentucky. She is the author of forty books for readers of all ages, and makes a living as a freelance writer and teacher.

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