Overcoming A Postal Worker

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After Christmas and New Years, Mother, Marie, Hazel, and I have been working hard in order to keep paying rent and to buy food, but the lower wage is certainly making things difficult. We constantly eat scraps just to get by, and our living conditions consistently decline everyday. I cannot wait until you come back from the war, we need some of your humor and fun in our house. My daily job as a postal worker has helped distract me from worrying about Mother, Marie, and Hazel. The postal route is fairly monotonous, but I suppose that is the best for me. New, interesting things typically distract me from more important things, such as food and protecting my family. On my route, I typically drive near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and since last month,

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