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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Pride, Prejudice, Regina with the genre: New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Humanities?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'An Unlikely Friendship'
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: An Unlikely Friendship
  But soon she was expecting another child and this, at least, helped her to stop crying. William (called Willie) was born on December 21, 1850.
  Lincoln once again was practicing law in Springfield with the firm of Lincoln and Herndon. Most of his cases were for the railroads, which were advancing and expanding all over the land. Mary spent her time cooking and caring for the children, shopping and sewing and "educating" her husband in such things as wearing a jacket when answering the doorbell and which silverware to use at a dinner party. She kept his spirits buoyed and was a constant supporter in his career, besides being an excellent mother. Both were indulgent parents. Always interested in politics, Mary was soon collaborating with and advising her husband, and there were many people who said Lincoln told them his wife expected him to be president.
  Zachary Taylor, a Whig, was in the White House. Lincoln wanted to be rewarded for all the work he'd done for the party. He wanted the post of commissioner of the Land Office. So he went back to Washington to further his cause, and Mary started a letter-writing campaign in his favor to get President Zachary Taylor's attention.
  Lincoln didn't get the post but was offered the governorship of Oregon Territory. He declined. They didn't want to live so far away from everything. So for six years his political career came to a standstill. Mary, busy with the children, still continued to bolster his spirits and still spoke of his being president someday.
  Lincoln made some speeches (after reading them first to Mary), and in 1858 he entered into a series of debates (seven in seven prairie towns) with Senator Stephen Douglas, Mary's old beau, taking a moderate antislavery position.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: We were in the kitchen, just about to sit down to eat that special middlin' of meat, when Mistress came in, her hair all askew, tearstains on her face.
  My mouth fell open so wide bees could build a honeycomb inside. Before Mama could even think of answering, Mistress walked out.
  THAT WAS THE END of my childhood for me, if it didn't end when they whipped me. The years went on. Mama didn't marry. But the years took their pieces of the Burwell family, too.
  Robert graduated from Hampden-Sydney and became a prig of a Presbyterian minister. John and Armistead graduated, too, and went out on their own. Benjamin was still in college. Anne married Hugh Garland, another prig, a Hampden-Sydney professor of Greek. Home yet were Mary, who would soon marry Hugh's brother; Fanny, who was sixteen; Charles, thirteen; William, eleven; and Elizabeth Margaret, now nine.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: It is a fact, though surprising, that she was asked to be in the wedding party of several white girls. Research tells us this. Apparently the custom was practiced in the South, especially when the girl was as attractive and poised as Elizabeth Keckley.
  Her dressmaking, soon recognized by the likes of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the future president of the Confederacy, was enviable, to say the least. All the cream of society had to have one of her dresses.
  So, once ensconced in Washington City, she had a whole list of wealthy patrons, and just about that time Mary Lincoln came to play her part as First Lady. The rest is a wonderful, heartbreaking, true story.
  I hope I have done it justice. The tale of this friendship between these two women is remarkable, indeed.
  Ms. Rinaldi attributes her interest in history to her son, who enlisted her to take part in historical reenactments up and down the East Coast, where she cooked the food, made the clothing, and learned about the dances, songs, and lifestyles that prevailed in eighteenth-century America.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Rinaldi attributes her interest in history to her son, who enlisted her to take part in historical reenactments up and down the East Coast, where she cooked the food, made the clothing, and learned about the dances, songs, and lifestyles that prevailed in eighteenth-century America. Research tells us this. Apparently the custom was practiced in the South, especially when the girl was as attractive and poised as Elizabeth Keckley.
  Her dressmaking, soon recognized by the likes of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the future president of the Confederacy, was enviable, to say the least. All the cream of society had to have one of her dresses.
  So, once ensconced in Washington City, she had a whole list of wealthy patrons, and just about that time Mary Lincoln came to play her part as First Lady. The rest is a wonderful, heartbreaking, true story.
  I hope I have done it justice. The tale of this friendship between these two women is remarkable, indeed.
  Ms.It is a fact, though surprising, that she was asked to be in the wedding party of several white girls.