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Orange Jacobs: “I do not know that I desire a full return of the customs of other days, but I would, if I could, check this tendency to…”

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I do not know that I desire a full return of the customs of other days, but I would, if I could, check this tendency to social isolation.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs expresses a desire to counteract the trend of social isolation in legal settings.

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