My Sweet Precious Darling Love,
            
          My wonderful Sweet Guen.


     I am writing to you once again even though I have just 
finished my last letter to you. Darling Love how can I express 
with these humble words how much I love you. Is there enough room 
in my heart to hold all the love that I feel for you? My heart has 
been so heavy for the past few months. I think and dream of you 
always and no one can ever be in my heart as you are my Sweet 
Tender Love. I dream of you and long to feel your tender touch; to 
look into your eyes and experience again the wonder of your 
cherished sweet smile. And yet my heart has been so heavy when I 
think of our future. I am but a humble working man who lives each 
day dreaming of our future together. And yet the reality of 
hardship stands also before me. I wonder so much how it will be. I 
am just a man without the ability to foretell the future. I can 
only long for the dream that I have. And that priceless dream is 
you Dear Love. And why has my heart been so heavy. What is that 
hardship that I also see? It is simply the the thought of us 
having to struggle to get by. It is knowing the reality that I can 
only give so much before the jar is empty. Darling Sweet Darling, 
I do think of our future together. And I have explained my sadness 
about the possibility of you missing your homeland and your family. 
Can we really make it work? I work each day to make the payments 
on this home, that I dream to be your home, and yet I know that I 
am near my limit. I hear so much of the hardship that others have 
faced in their marriages when the reality of financial problems 
set in and how hard it is. I do not want that for us. And that is 
why it was important for me to talk with you about it. I hope that 
you can understand. And I also hope that when I spoke of the 
necessity of your finding work here that you understand how very 
important it is. 

     Can there ever be another Guen? Who can capture my soul with 
just one gentle smile as you can my Love? Yet I think that I was 
not even aware of how much I love you until I had to face the 
reality of how hard it may be. We come from different cultures. 
You are a religious woman whereas I am not a religious man. And 
will this be upsetting to us in the long run? I asked you in my 
other letter about your feelings about contraception. It is 
something that we really need to understand. So here I am worrying 
about our future and we're not even married! Isn't that something? 
I wonder about how you will feel in the years to come when you are 
in place that is so different from where you were raised. I wonder 
how the stars in our eyes will shine when we are faced with having 
to do so much with the little that I have left over after the 
bills are paid. And yet my love for you is so strong. But how can 
our love make big house payments for the next 30 years? With some 
extra income we could pay the house off early so we wouldn't have 
to work so hard all our lives. And how will there be enough money 
to save for the children's education? And what about things we 
want to do around the house? We cannot forget how important it is 
to have time to play. Yes, play time is important even for adults. 



     All these things have been heavy in my heart Darling. So many 
things I have been thinking about. I admit that before now I never 
really thought as much about these things as I do now. This whole 
year I have been so wrapped up in love with you that I wasn't 
really able to see things as clearly as I maybe I should have.  

     I have been doing some new things to try and find an answer 
to these questions that are in my heart. And these questions all 
center around what makes a marriage happy and last throughout the 
years. I have been talking with my father, made appointments with 
marriage counselors, had long discussions  with my married 
friends, and even begun reading books on the subject of marriage. 
Isn't that something! And in every case they all say that feelings 
of love will come and go in marriage; what makes a marriage last 
is true love and what two people have in common. And this second 
part is the area we both know very little about. 

     So I long to see you again Darling. My heart pines for you 
each and every day. I grow tired of talking with others and 
reading books. I need to see you my Love. You know Darling, you were 
the very first woman to ever write to me from another country, and 
from your very first letter I felt that special quality in you 
that later on so deeply won my heart. I carried that feeling with 
me and it drove me to seeing you when I was in Cebu. And when we 
met it was like a dream come true. Even now you are still in my 
heart Darling. Your love lives within me. Whenever I hear a love 
song I think of you Darling, it's true. I miss you so. So please 
don't be sad when I speak of things that are important. I want us 
to be happy Guen now and forever.

     My eyes are growing tired as it is very late in the evening.
So for now I think I'll close this letter and prepare it for 
mailing to you in the morning.

     My heart and love is always with you Darling. Now and 
forever.

                         Your Loving Man,

                                   Donald.