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`Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can`t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan`t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can`t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don`t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can`t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can`t even write this properly. I can`t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can`t go on spoiling your life any longer.

I DON`T THINK TWO PEOPLE COULD HAVE BEEN HAPPIER THAN WE`VE BEEN.

V.