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"I'm sorry," he said "But maybe with time"

"Time doesn't heal scars, as most people commonly think," I said "It simply makes them firmer, stiffer One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was"

"That's a hard and cold lesson, Olivia," he remarked "That's what the truth is, Nelson, hard and cold most of the time"

He stared a aze

"You're going to run this town one day," he predicted "You're a natural born leader You should have been born"

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"Sorry I know that women are supposed to be treated with equal respect these days, but I'm still a bit old-fashioned when it comes to that, I suppose"

"You're just a typical chauvinistic hed

He held up his hands

"Guilty," he declared

"Of what?" Sa over to join us

"Of stereotyping," Nelson explained

Samuel looked fro out the changes I had suggested be e two-story, side-gabled house I had suggested capping the paneled front door with a decorative crown and then adding a row of

rectangular panes of lass beneath the crown I wanted the s to have double-hung sashes and estion I made None of it came

froination, however I had researched the period and knew enough to ht sensible