The house, its furnishings and surroundings, took on the appearance given it by my ways of work and my liking, just as Nathan’s work and his liking altered the looks of the farm. And as our work shaped our workplaces, our work and our workplaces shaped our days. Our work brought us together and drew us apart. Sometimes we would be together only at mealtimes and at night. Sometimes we would be together at the same work most of the day. We had differences. There were the agreed-on differences of work. There were the accepted, mostly happy differences between a man and a woman. There were the
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