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“It was natural that I love her. It is natural for a man and woman to make family.” he said. “Upon that great stead with all our family shipped out from us, it is natural that we would be together. And we were together for some years. I will not disavow her. I will not denounce her. I will say I have sinned in a world full of terrible sinners, that this world is constructed to divide father from son, son from wife, and we must bite back with whatever a blade we have at hand.”

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