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Ant_222  #534874  Mon, 30 Jun 08 09:34 PM
Hello all.

Here's a sentence:
"Feeling that the letter had to be finished if only so she wouldn't have to
wrestle with it anymore, she wrote<...>"

Does it mean that she finished the letter only to stop the need to "wrestle with it"? I am not sure I understand what this "if only so" phrase means...

Thanks in advance,
Anton
  
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CalifJim  #534877  Mon, 30 Jun 08 09:51 PM
Ant_222
Does it mean that she finished the letter only to stop the need to "wrestle with it"?
Yes.  You got it.

She wrote ... because she felt that the letter had to be finished, even if the only reason for finishing it was not to have to deal with it anymore.

CJ 

 

  
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Ant_222  #534879  Mon, 30 Jun 08 09:54 PM
Thanks for showing how the phrase works, CJ!
  
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