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So typically male. They don’t talk about feelings. Heathcliff could have minimized this if he’d told Aidan what he was doing (and why) before Aidan found out through the gossip mill at work. But Heathcliff is a control freak.

Now I’m imagining an evil version of Dick Van Dyke dancing with the penguins in Mary Poppins! ;–)

…and that would have ended @R. Eric’s Cinderfella before it even began! ;–)

#hollywoodsowhite

Dream a little before you think. RIP Toni Morrison

But that would certainly put you on the Top Authors list!

I think a lot of it is that there isn’t that fifth sense to distract you from the four that you have. I’ve read about people who do not feel pain – it’s very dangerous because pain is a warning signal to avoid something. The related sense of touch is incredibly important with a huge percentage of our nerve endings in/on our genital region, fingertips, and in/around our mouth. And our sense of hearing is a very specialized form of touch (the tiny bones in our ears vibrate and the nerves interpret the vibrations as sound). Vision could arguably be considered to be an extreme extension of touch with the rods and cones in our eyes responding to various frequencies (aka vibrations) of light. ;–)

So they’re in what is Utah in our world. I guess they’ll take the Oregon Trail up to the Pacific Northwest coast. There are only limited pathways through mountain passes, which have been used for thousands of years. Railroads and Freeways were built along those paths. We have archeological evidence that trading took place that moved goods from the Pacific Coast hundreds of miles into the interior. There is even evidence that goods were traded across the Bering Strait from Alaska into China! Diseases from Eurasia killed off a huge percentage of the Native population before Europeans started colonizing places like California.

My understanding is that First Nation is a Canadian term. At least in the past, Native American or Amerind/Amerindian were more common terms used in the US in anthropological and linguistic contexts. There really isn’t a single, universally accepted term in the US, but Native American probably comes closest.

What typo? I don’t see any typos! ;–)

I hadn’t thought of that. It sounds like a very realistic prediction of Eric’s probable behavior. He doesn’t do well with spontaneity. ;–)

There’s a whole book about a bloodthirsty, vengeful deity. And a bunch of fire-and-brimstone religious agitators who seem to only pay attention to that half of their holy book. They prefer the stark, black-and-white contrasts of good vs evil over the nonjudgmental, warm and fuzzy message of love from a hippie socialist.

Maybe marking a story complete could automatically create a link on the final chapter’s page to the story’s home page so more people would Review the story.

South Carolinian! ;–)

Symbolically, Kyle chose to buy a green truck because he likes the color, something surprising to Wren & Caleb apparently because he wouldn’t have dared upsetting his brothers by making such a bold choice in the past. ;–)

You’re wrong. I can even prove it. Just take a look at @ReaderPaul’s and my Profiles! They both say Member, not Author. ;–)

No we’re not, neither of us is a writer! ;–)

They are creating new hosts for the Little Warriors™ at a semi-exponential rate. The problems is that they are starting with a very small number of donors compared with the population of A’Dore. Plus they aren’t using all of the recently inoculated as hosts (eg children).

@R. Eric probably forgot about them! ;–)

Hollywood and Silicon Valley are spreading US English around the world too… ;–)

British English is the accepted term. And Canadian English is a hybrid combining some aspects of British English (especially spelling) with borrowed US terms. Due to US military personnel stationed in Australia during WWII, Aussie English has adopted some US English as well. ;–)

I was going to go to sleep, but there were three Notifications that popped up – two were related to this chapter. ;–)

There are a few countries where Sharia law only applies to Muslims. But I’m not sure what happens when a Muslim does something that is legal under Sharia law yet violates the rights of a non-Muslim. That is the sort of problem you get when you simultaneously have two different sets of laws within one country. ;–)

I think language and culture have usually been the major impediments in many merged countries. The most frequent solution was to impose the dominant language (or dialect) and culture on the junior partner or conquered area. In many cases, the local population continued to speak their own language (or dialect), but were forced to conduct all governmental business in the dominant language. Language is still causing conflict in currently existing countries like Belgium and Spain. Puerto Rico is unlikely to become a US state because of the linguistic issue (as well as the economic conditions). Imposing a single currency has been done many times throughout history. The easiest on the public is probably to declare an official exchange rate between the existing currencies and either phasing out one in favor of the other, or replacing both with a new currency gradually. More disruptive is to abruptly impose the dominant currency and no longer recognizing the other – usually the result of a hostile takeover. The US Dollar is the official currency in several independent countries around the world. And then there’s the Euro… ;–) Legal systems and government institutions also need to be combined. The ‘one country, two systems’ policy doesn’t seem to be working in China these days. But there were several cases in Europe where one sovereign ruled over two kingdoms that officially remained separate.