This is episode 35 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features five pieces of correspondence from four individuals from December 1944. Sweetie sends a Christmas card and a letter to Jeanne, Lew (Sweetie's husband) sends information to Jeanne, Dr. Chester Demaree (Sweetie's father) writes to his son, Frank, who is at the front during World War II about Christmas 1944 in Iowa and how he has plans to purchase a farm, and Samuel Graham (Lew's father) sends a card to Jeanne, providing an update on his health at the end of the year. Additionally, we see a wartime Christmas card sent to family from Joe Graham (Lew's brother). Altogether, it is a unique picture of Christmas 1944 for one family during World War II.

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This is episode 34 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from November and December 1944. Two of the four letters were written by Sweetie from Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other two letters were from Sweetie's parents, writing to her sister, Jeanne, in Lacona, Iowa. In this episode, we find out what happened to disrupt Sweetie's plans for Thanksgiving, whether or not Jeanne finally visits her sister in Hutchinson, and we hear about the plans that are being made for the family for Christmas 1944. We also find out how a famous Christmas story originated, and see some images of Hutchinson, Kansas from postcards from the beginning of the 20th century.

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This is episode 33 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from November 1944. Two of the three letters were written by Sweetie from Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other letter was written by Sweetie's husband, Lew. In this episode, Lew writes to Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., regarding some tools that Chester has sent him from Lacona, Iowa, and Sweetie and Lew hope that her sister, Jeanne, will visit them in Hutchinson, Kansas before Thanksgiving 1944. Sweetie also starts to get more concerned that Lew will be sent overseas, but is not sure when that might occur.

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This is episode 32 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from October and November 1944. Three of the four letters were written by Sweetie from Hutchinson, Kansas, and the other letter was written by Sweetie's mother, Laura, from Lacona, Iowa. In this episode, Sweetie hopes that her sister Jeanne will come to visit her Kansas, Lew gets a guitar, and Sweetie reviews the possibility of her and Lew having a baby in the near future. Finally, at the end of the episode, some bonus content was added showing Lew's guitar today, so that the audience can see and hear that musical instrument that Lew obtained in 1944.

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This is episode 31 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from fall 1944. All four letters were written by Sweetie; three of the four were sent to Jeanne, and the last letter in this episode was sent to her other sister, Margaret Elizabeth Bolton. In this episode, we learn more about Sweetie's social life in Hutchinson, Kansas and we see that Sweetie and Lew are trying to find Christmas presents that they can send to her two brothers who are serving at the front. Finally, Lew goes before the Reviewing Board so that he might earn a higher rank in the Navy.

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This is episode 30 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features three letters from early fall 1944. All three letters were written by Sweetie, and she notes both what is happening with her and Lew living in Hutchinson, Kansas, but also she advises her sister, Jeanne, on what to do with regards to Jeanne's relationship with a man named Bill. Jeanne is considering marrying Bill and seeks Sweetie's advice. Additionally, we learn a little more about Hutchinson, Kansas and the salt mining that historically occurred there and which continues to this day.

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This is episode 29 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features five letters from late summer / early fall 1944. All five letters were written by Sweetie and updates her family on what is occurring in Hutchinson, Kansas since she moved there. Sweetie writes to her family members, requesting updates from them as to what is occurring, since she and Lew are by themselves in Kansas.

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This is episode 28 of the Love Sweetie Podcast! This episode features four letters from late summer 1944. The first three letters are updates from Sweetie in Hutchinson, Kansas, and she describes a new apartment that she and Lew are renting, since it seems they will be staying in that city for longer than expected. The fourth, and final letter of the episode, is from Sweetie's father, Chester Demaree, M.D., writing from Lacona, Iowa to his sons, Frank and Bob who are both serving in the military, regarding some of what is happening at home, and he again mentions the Presidential Election of 1944.

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