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A servant to an honest man of Duxbury, being about 16 or 17 years of age...he was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey.
--William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation
I was an only servant, alone, unmarried, in the town of Duxbury.
I was gentle with the animals and they were gentle with me.
I wasn't lonely, it was boredom, exactly. The pure possibility of days magnified by an empty,...