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A thing that somewhat confuses me:

The Hale's are relatively new in town. Their neighbors probably don't know they have a son, let alone that their son has been convicted of a capital offense in absentia. Or that Mrs. Hale doesn't have a beloved nephew, either through her sister or some as yet unmentioned sibling of Mr. Hale.

It seems to me that in the days before the expectation of photo IDs, and the unlikelihood that anyone in Milton would know Freddie on sight, that trying to hide his presence is more difficult and likely to go wrong than acknowledging his presence and introducing him as someone else.

Yes, it would still be an issue if someone in authority went digging through birth and death records and found out said devoted nephew didn't exist, or did exist but denied visiting. But such records wouldn't have been centralized or available in Milton, so it would have to be someone very invested in catching Freddie, and highly suspicious of Freddie in the first place. It's very likely that Freddie would be out of the country again before any suspicions could be investigated.

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The 40 hour work week isn't good for anyone. We know this, both on a gut level and from empirical research.

However

There are people, the majority of people in fact, who go through their 40 hour jobs and then come home, make dinner, and do something with their evening that is enjoyable and not just a dead-eyed zone out. They spend time with family or friends, play with pets or kids, engage in hobbies, or even just sit and enjoy media actively.

When they talk about how much it sucks to go to work, it's a kind of general grumbling (because again, nobody likes the current system).

If you approach going to work and feel like you might just die if you have to go in again. If you come home after work and can't do anything except stare blankly at the TV or your phone. If you can barely make dinner or keep your house clean. If you feel like you're actually drowning all the time and have no ability to actively engage in any enriching activities outside of work.

That's not just the general shittiness of the system. That's a sign that you have a mental or physical health issue that's being compounded by the system. It's a sign of disability.

The medical system where you are may suck donkey balls, but there's a lot you can do just by tracking your symptoms and trying to figure out what's going on. And if you can get medical help, you can vastly improve the quality of your life, even if you can't get out of the system.

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Sailing ship at sunrise, by Demetrius Florian Doboşariu (1899 - 1979)

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Carl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808- 1880)-Rocky landscape: gorge with ruins. Date 1830.

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Oh Thomas Hardy, you write the most beautiful sentences.

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group portrait in a garden, 1850s-60s.

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Marryat swag.....I love the little anchors and ropes soooo much

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I swear the general public's misunderstanding of modern French history is going to be my villain origin story.

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1926-27 Coat of white silk twill with green cotton appliques. From the Kent State University Museum.

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The Rose Garden at Wargemont (1879) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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redraw/overpaint of my wuthering heights drawing from last year

“I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; but, as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there: not under me, but on the earth.”

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Pearls on Golden Eve - Gary Bowling , 2014.

American , b. 1948 -

Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in.

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Center table, 1860-80, Ohio.

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Jakob Alt (German), View from the Artists Studio in Alservorstadt toward Dornbach, 1836, oil.

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I keep forgetting how absolutely cringe Fitzwilliam Darcy is before his first proposal...🤣

The guy was so clueless it literary hurts

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girl this smaller dandelion piece took me hours to finish but it’s DONE!