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Vienna, May 16, 1900
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Since you have not written for an eternity, you leave me no alternative but to tempt you with a letter out of turn. In any event, there has been a slight break: an evening patient has left me — my most difficult case, and the most certain as far as etiology is concerned. For four years I could not get close to it. Moreover, it was the only case Breuer sent me. He kept sending the girl back to me whenever I had chased her away in utter despair. Last year I finally began to get on good terms with her, and this year at last I succeeded. I found the