"Excuse me, Mrs. Smith, but I am not getting engaged to anyone. Deciding something like that for me is incredibly disrespectful. You can make decisions about your daughters if they allow it, but no one decides for me, and I don't give a damn… Don't interrupt me, Mom." My mother was about to shut me up or try to persuade me, but I wasn't going to let her. "As I was saying, I don't give a damn if the Smiths and the Kellers have been friends forever, or if they do business together, or whatever. I'm not getting married just to strengthen your ties. With all due respect, Miss Amme, you are an admirable and beautiful woman, but I have no intention of getting married, not now and not in five years. So I hope you don't take my rejection personally." "Don't worry, Mr. Keller. I wouldn't take it personally. After all, you're not being disrespectful or discriminatory, and besides… no one has asked me if I want to marry you. And the truth is, I don't. I'm not interested in getting married,
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