"It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked."

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Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

Patricia C. Wrede

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