Thursday June 17.1943
Dear Mother and Dad, Just a few lines. You know James has heard twice from you Mom and I haven”™t received a letter. Am I jealous? I”™m more of a baby than ever so considered yourself bawled out. You know James said you wrote and told him that you couldn”™t understand why I didn”™t write and tell you before we were married. Well he got the impression I was ashamed of him ”˜cause he was a PFC (private first class) and me a officer. Now the reason I didn”™t tell you Mom is I couldn”™t. Remember everything we say is read and we are supposed to ask permission to get married. With he being a private there would have been trouble and anyhow I figure I”™m of age and can marry whom I please. These rank conscious people make me sick, anyhow. We got married without their knowledge and so therefore I couldn”™t write. I hope you understand. You know James said he is going to spank me, ”˜cause I”™m spoiled, but you know he hasn”™t yet and doubt if he will. He only gets to see me two hours once a week at this hospital. When I was a T.G.H. I saw him quite often. Dopey hangs on my mosquito bar, there was a bee on his head last night and it was still there this morning. James brought me up some doughnuts, candy and nuts, maybe someday I”™ll eat them. Who knows? He is so grand to me. I still loose about two meals a day and have such bad headaches. I have the same thing on my left eye you have on yours Mom. It covers the white and comes up to the edge of the pupil but it doesn”™t bother me, I have to go to the dentist as soon as I can stand to sit up a few hours without my heart jumping out of my mouth. I was talking some acid medicine and it sort of hurt my teeth, anyhow now I have 11 cavities, oh well so much for me. You know those beads I sent, well mine are being eaten up by worms or a bug, that was inside the shell when they made them, they didn”™t cure them. Maybe if you put them in some mothballs it would help. I hate it, but that”™s the way things are over here. You never know. The cheapest apartments here run around $65 to $125 a month and that is for a room and bath. Boy such highway robbers. My Doctor from T.G.H. was up to see me yesterday, sure was glad, as I know no one here and it”™s rather lonesome. Some of the patients got some mail today; maybe I”™ll get some soon. Tell Lola Mae Kendare hello but I just don”™t”™ feel like writing much. She has written me four letters and sent me a card. Say, I can”™t”™ remember what sister wanted the stamps so you give them to her please? Aloha -AraBelle and James