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pieces and almost all of the information was
about his wife and children.”

“When did he marry?”
“The news of his wedding was the main
reason for the first letter.”
Rachel could hardly believe it. “So he must
have married around seventeen years ago?”
Mother Davis nodded. “His first son was
born about a year later, so his oldest would be
about fifteen or sixteen.”
“How did he get to be a senator?”
Mother Davis shrugged. “I didn’t even
know he was until recently. I knew he had
purchased the farm and, when word got out that it
was a senator who had bought it, I put two and
two together. But he never wrote me anything
about it. His letters were almost totally about

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