human
Even though he may be thousands of miles away, I mean to keep myself as close to him as possible by writing him as I would talk to him, about _all_ the things which happen in my life, and, unless I set them down as they happen, I shall forget,
gpt
Perhaps _you_ can succeed in keeping one. _I_ never could, laughed her friend.
human
Each January First I start a new one, and register a solemn vow to keep it up longer, at least, than I did the one the previous year. If I follow that system until I am three hundred and fifty years old, I will complete just one before I die.
gpt
You have an exceptional gift for making incidents seem real and people alive, in your letters, and of realizing that, with us who are so far away from home, it _is_ the little things which count. Ethel, alas, is hopeless in this respect. She writes me faithfully; but invariably says that nothing has happened except the usual occurrences of everyday life, and thereby utterly misses the great fact that it is just those very things that the lonely exile most longs to hear about. I would actually rather have her write that they had baked beans on Saturday night than that so-and-so had given a charity whist at the Vendome.