The Art of Empathy
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Last published Wed, Apr 20, 2016
Part One of a series of stories from the earliest years of the Revolutionary War.
The streets of Boston can be overwhelming; busy shops in the streets, ships piling into the port, and people rushing everyone with burgeoning ideas of revolution. As a young woman living and working in the Boston Home for Orphans, Mallory Williams awaits the day when she will be able to experience all of the excitement the revolution has to offer. In the streets of Boston she meets Acton Lockwood, a crippled recluse living on the outskirts of the city. As their lives become further intertwined they must adapt to situations in which they never imagined themselves facing.
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