IF ...shy

Nathaniel Hawthorne was likely the shyest writer of the 'Dark Romantics'.  He would often go out of his way to avoid people, and he shunned his neighbor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his social circle.
It must have been a red letter day whenever Nathaniel imbibed in the social punchbowl...

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