Hi there, come on in.  Very late, I'm sorry to keep you.  Another long and exhausting day spent dealing with aggravations and problems galore.  You, too?  Believe me, I completely understand.  Give me your coat, have a seat on the sofa and make yourself comfortable.  Warm beverage in a mug or chilled wine in a glass?  The choice is yours ... as it always is in my living room.  Leave the world outside behind the closed door.  Relax.  Take a deep breath and let it all go away. 

No need to respond, silence is a beautiful addition to the peace we've found here together.  Yet, should I notice the secret smile - will you tell me why?  

"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

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