They Grind Exceeding Small

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subject Rose, he is SO NICE

memo He still treats everyone, women and men all, as if they were royalty. He makes everyone in the room comfortable just by speaking for a few moments.

No one can believe that he didn't behave as a gentleman and that he didn't treat you as a woman. No one believes that you saw some dark side of him that no one else saw.

It's only necessary to be a gentleman, and he is the model.He is different since I last saw him. He is reluctant to give hugs, and he recoils from them when offered.I sent you a message which mildly criticized your decision, and which gave you the benefit of believing that maybe you didn't intend all the consequences. Then I heard that your reaction was that I was a man trying to write like a woman.

I find it saddening that you thought only that, and considered my words to be of no significance.

If he had injured you, if this had been handled correctly, you would have only our support and understanding, and he would have the contempt. As it is, you have but made a tragic heroic victim of the man. Although it can't be said whether he bleeds for what you did or for what the company did, and though he tries not to show it, bleed he does.

Did he not agree to your wishes, and did you not promise never to do that, and were you not part of all that you had the company condemn him for?

I think this won't be forgotten, and though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.