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"I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century."
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"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
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Money
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People
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Control
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Family
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