21st January
My sweetest Anne,
Night falls Anne an all I can think about is it's been over 16 days since you've proclaimed your undying and sensual love for me and its killing me I've not received a love letter to the ridiculous yet despite my best attempts over the past 11 days, sending all those romantic notes your way. Am I so resistible to you? My love, you may make a man insecure yet! Especially after all your reassurances at Christmas I find this a little unfair. So my dear I have thought of a new strategy, are you ready to hear it? Perhaps I shall have to write sensible love letters too? So let remove the sentiment, the long descriptions of all the wonderful things I should do to you if you were here, even remove my charm, and let's see how long YOU can go with me!
And of course to retract from our own romance I feel I must tell you of someone else's. Well you won't believe it when I tell you, our very own Jonathan has found a girl! He is besotted with her. I've never seen him like this, nay not in the five and a half years I've known him! Apparently she is "fascinating" and he's very much into wooing her. Its really quite sweet, because he's really quite uncertain of himself with regards to an actual relationship, he's always been able to grab the attention of the ladies but since he's had no long term experience of a relationship he's actually asking for MY advice! Mine! The boy who at 13 fell hard and never got himself out of it! I have no idea, how I managed to win your affections is still beyond me! I'm not a ladies man and you aren't a typical "girl", I mean you have a 'girly' side but its not the sum of your personality, how can I give anyone else any advice? I mean don't you need to know the girl? You know, so you don't call her the equivalent to 'carrots'? I'm quite at a lost really.
School is… an education! I'll give them that! As we aren't talking romantically about it, let's just say I'm fascinated with the female form and I wonder how life like the drawings are. (Realise I would love to put an exclamation mark but I cannot put it in case you read the romance in it)
The bones and muscles of the foot! My word! The human body is amazing! Each component interrelates with all the others to create the human form. Anne it's so interesting. The foot and ankle contain, 26 bones 33 joints; more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments and I have to learn about all of them!
In surgery we are learning about the different cuts and which part of the body we would perform the different cuts on. Its so you don't cut too deeply in some places which could cause a bleed out if you did do it it also allows for quicker more efficient recovery times in the right places.
Apart from that I'm enjoying my time interning in the hospital. I think I may get the doctors to notice me yet. It's a lot of hard word though, I've not had time to do anything with the Lambs, which is bad considering I am the president. Luckily my vice president is a serial degree earner he's getting his third degree (isn't that funny I always feel as though I'm scolding him when I say it) and he seems to enjoy the challenge. I think as well one of the doctors at the hospital is an ex lamb, I'll need to check the leadership history files to be sure but I swear he is one, hopefully it'll be a way to connect to them.
Well I must dash I have to finish an assignment that's due in a week.
Hope I find you in good health.
Best Wishes
Gil
31st January
Dearest love,
Please send me a silly love letter I miss you desperately don't make me wait any longer for your affection!
Gil.
March 5th
Happy birthday my sweetheart. I'm sorry I cannot be there with you today, its certain to break a man in half that he can't be there to share his beloved's special day. So instead please find my presents for you enclosed, I hope they remind you of me. I love you. Gil.
April 25th
My poor Dear Anne,
What kind of fear has Cousin Ernestine Bugle put into you love? I am here and always will be to reassure you. So here I go….
Auburn hair my dear does not go grey. See there. Can you believe inside that head of yours there is a positive to your loveliest and most gorgeous red hair? Red hair retains its natural pigment a lot longer than other shades, it can go lighter, to blonde maybe even to white (if we reach a grand old age) but it will never never go grey.
WE shall never end up in the poorhouse. Why, you ask? Well I was born a Blythe and you very soon will be a Blythe, and us Blythe's always find a way, we are resourceful and we use our brains to resolve situations long before we need ever fear a poorhouse. And my dearest you are Anne Shirley, you will never let it be so!
Your pupils are bright and intelligent children all of which are more the capable of passing their exams, they have you as a teacher after all my dear. I guarantee you all your students will pass with flying colours for a second year running, so much so the board will be begging you by the end of your contract to teach longer for them.
You are no more likely then I to have contracted rabies, but my dear if you like I shall check for signs of it the next time we meet (assuming it isn't too late!)
Anne, Katherine is your friend and anyone who spends ten minutes in your company loves you and continues to do so, Katherine's fondness for you will only grow in time like everyone else's. And your umbrella is made out of stronger stuff...
Your hair IS auburn, the most beautiful colours on the red spectrum. If you get a mole your soon to be husband will be a doctor I'm sure I can fix it...
You're school is unlikely to be a fire trap if it were I guarantee they would have closed down the school, there will be no mice in your bed (or your cake sauce for that matter!) and the reaper my dear has no interest in such a lively women as you. And your last fear which has been conjured up by the dark corners of your imagination... I promise you I didn't become engaged to you because you were " always around" if that were true I should have been engaged to Josie or Diana or Jane or Ruby. You were not always there did you forget our last two years at Redmond together? I became engaged to you because I found I could not live my life without you I was THAT MUCH in LOVE with YOU!
I hope these have put to rest any of the fears such a women has put into your mind. You know I don't lie or bend the truth for you (some of our feistiest discussions was because of this… do you remember? And before you fear I don't like feisty let me guarantee this much… YOU were feisty in breaking that slate over my head and it was the first time my dear THOSE emotions had EVER been stirred in me, and don't you forget it I have always ALWAYS been attracted to feisty. If you could only hear my heartbeat right now!)
Anne, sweetheart KNOW that since the day you accepted my proposal I have been so unafraid of anything! I was afraid before then, so very very afraid the deepest desires I had ever felt would never come true. The one thing I had really wanted and needed in my life was lost forever. See Anne from the moment I met you, you changed me. I was never a stupid boy I was always clever in my schooling, but I didn't want anything to become of it, not really. You waltz in the room and you show more passion and zest in your little finger for life then I had ever shown or known and I… I wanted it. So I made myself cleverer, in the hope you would have the desire to talk to me, to acknowledge me, nay even a nod... (to show your elementary good breeding of course as I always knew you had) alright in the process of showing off to you I may have unintentionally made you hate me... but you know that was an unexpected error and the greatest mistake I have ever made, it showed in an instant just how different you were and dearest it made me excited! When you rejected me when we didn't speak for so long THAT was my greatest fear and I lived through it! So you see dear I no longer need to imagine the worse, for every eventuality with you is better then living without you. And if that doesn't convey to you how much I return your affection let me make it clear, I have always been scandalously in love with you I mean shamelessly utterly and completely in love... all I can say is thank the good Lord I am not a minister!(my thoughts are far too preoccupied by your lovely presence to think of any thing too holy! Other then the books of matrimony between a man and his wife, thanks to certain biology lessons I am still having!)
Scandalously yours
Gil
