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"I know you said that you have a friend ill help you with the decorating, but there’s no reason at all why you should be spending that kind of money when I can come out to help you You’ll see, I’ll have that place shipshape in no tiht on schedule with the lecture

"And another thing, this Clark character I don’t like hi you so much trouble It’s your home and you should do with it as you please The idea that he would--"

"Ma"

"--have the nerve to tell you what you can and can’t--"

"Ma! Clark is under control You don’t think I can handle a librarian?"

"He’s a librarian?"

"He’s the town librarian, he’s an archivist, and he’s the head of the local historical society He knows a lot about the town, a lot about the house too He even helped Aunt Maude get it listed on the historical register That’s the only reason he’s so involved with this project--he needs to es that we make are within the time period of the home"

"Hmmm"

"He’s a total pain in the ass, but kind of--I don’t know, in a good way? I hate to adood ideas" God, he would just looooove to knoas saying such good things about him "Oh, and you should see e came up with for the front porch! Remember how I told you the floor was all rotted, hoent through it the first night? And then again another night?"

"You went through the front porch twice?" lance toward o on

"Didn’t I tell you about the second tih the floorboards, he agreed that we needed to start with the porch And he suggested restoring the old porch swing Re forme carefully

"Yep Aunt Maude seeether I’ve got a picture here soh o! Can you believe horetched this thing looks? But Clark knows a carpenter who does a lot of restoration work He thinks that--"