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View of loose item on ScrpBk1_06-verso: typescript of letter written by Georges Destrubé for his family, May 2-25, 1917. Page 19 of 19.

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[start page] - 19 - accord in our conversation. We are discussing someting rather serious yet we often stop to laugh at bits of humour dragged in (mostly Paul's) and I am wondering as I write this - did anyone ever have better brothers than I. Guy and Paul, so lovable, so brave, Guy and Paul often reflective and sad, yet straight-lipped and strong, and so cheery and full of fun. The manner of their death is our consolation and we must be thankful that we still have left to us our brothers and sisters equally dear. When I wander back to Canada and bound homeward I'll find everything dearer there, if sadder: there will be Maurice and Maggie whom I long to see, and there I will find ever the happier memories of Guy and Paul, and every familiar place, dear to me, and every spot about the homestead and down the lake and valley where we used to work or hunt. And everything will speak to me of them - the paths we trod, the meadow smells, the sluggish creek, the buzz of mosquitoes and the scent of pines and all the innumerable things that make the colour of the country, leaving impressions never to be forgotten, and will bring them back to me. --- And may that day roll on. GEORGES. [end page]

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