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>Ours is a land of volunteer fire departments, of baseball, of
>wizened spinsters who instead of sitting around whining about their
>goddamned osteoporosis write and self-publish books on the histories
>of their little towns, of the farmwives and grain merchants and
>parsons and drunkards who made their places live.
I can see the deep affinity with expatriate Anglo-Irish aristocrats immediately!