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Your writing is so beautiful Mary. I love your attention to details! This passage was particularly touching and masterful: “he inevitability of this event, of his invasion not only into our parlor—where he’d been, where the Matisse once hung—but into our bedroom seems likely to me because she had, in a sense, invaded his house, Lena present in Evan’s parlor. He took her there.” I’m learning from you.

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What a grand and generous comment. I love how you quoted the line you like. Thank you so much for reading and staying in touch. xx ~ Mary

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So wonderfully damning!

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Made my day, Alisa!

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With all the personalities swirling around, I love the continued allusions to farming. Oddly seems completely relevant. Like poetic images.

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I studied farming, went to farms: learned much. Thank you for noting this aspect that becomes a significant part of the novel's imagery.

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💖💖💖

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Take that Isaac! You’re a sham farmer.:)

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Indeed, at least from Robert's point of view!

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