I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and just as complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
He__ a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he__ fifty, and even then there__ still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.
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He__ a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he__ fifty, and even then there__ still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.
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