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October 11, 1941.

Dear Tuck:

ae When this lotter arrives you will be twenty years
ot age tnd leach to eugnindias ie a ae en, levely years.

This morning at the breakfast table Mother remarked that it was just
twenty years ago today - it was on a Saturday - that she felt the

first pains, end she wondered if she could stand the ordeal because
she was so tired. She had five children and the sixth one was per-
haps more than she thought she could bear.

I remember the Saturday, and it was on the Saturday
that we played Drake University at Haskell. The stadium was being
built here and the football field had not been sodded sc we played
the first game with Drake, ard Drake best us. Fotsy Clark was the
coach.

I remember o hepy I felt at your arrival, and how
depressed I was that we had lost the football game, but the joy far
outweighed the ace aeons of the game because Mother and you
were well.

And it is a wonderful experience for a parent to real~
ize that @ new spirit has come into the world. Of course all the
hopes and ambitions of the parent are for the happiness and success
of the child. For that reason I want to congratulate you for the way
you have lived, because after all, it is your life that you are living.
You are not living it for someone else. You are living it for yourself,

but if you live it properly you make everybody proud of you. And you
live life in the happiest, most buoyant and radiant way.

Don't do things just to please other people. Do
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that life will make other ‘People very happy

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that you are able to view life from a distant vantage point. It does
something to people. It makes them realise thet they are responsible
for everything that they have to do about themselves. It gives them
confidence and maturity, and it gives them a sest, a thrill of life
that when you feel so dependent upon others you fail to have. :

So I will not write more this morning, although 1
would like very much to do so, but I want you to get this letter Mon-
day. sph in isco mentee eal
a With sincere love, I

Your affectionate aja,