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Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1896 regionalist work The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Friendship, place, community, memory, aging, storytelling, observation and relationships formed over time.

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the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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“the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

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The narrator distinguishes immediate attraction from friendship that deepens slowly through sustained familiarity, experience and shared life.

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The Country of the Pointed Firs, opening chapter, represented by Project Gutenberg #367. This is first-person literary narration about the narrator’s return to Dunnet Landing; the lower-case opening is preserved because the quotation is a clause excerpted from a longer sentence.

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