Several years ago, I tripped upon something that puzzled me.
Through family tales passed down through the generations and backed by literally boxes of original documents including diaries and correspondence, Randall Keynes' book Annie's Box recounts the family life of his great-great grandparents, Charles and Emma Darwin. At one point, the
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Come to think of it, I just encountered this. At an open house, a neighbor asked another about the color choices for her house. She said she had just returned from New Orleans, which might have influenced her (we're in the drab and somewhat color challenged Pacific Northwest). The following question, why were you in NOLA, was answered with a bit of a chin lift, that she had been volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, building houses in the Ninth Ward. She was a doctor by profession.
That little chin lift, I tell you, I found outright grating. I'm not saying I haven't done it myself, but in her I found it downright halo polishing.
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