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the balance. “I have lost a big chunk of Rappahannock County.” He recalled an old saying about friends and relatives, “that you’re stuck with your relatives, but you get to choose your friends.” He spoke of longing for the day when he could live here full time, among his chosen friends. “Now I’m not so sure I will choose to stay.”
And, he related the story of Benjamin Franklin’s reply to the crowd as the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. “What manner of government have you given us, Ben?” someone yelled. “A democracy -- if you can keep it,” Franklin is said to have replied.
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