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Hawaiians are usually outwardly friendly, but slow to open up to real relationships outside of their immediate circles. Many people try to settle in the Islands, enamored of palm trees and good weather, but those who last are few. Complicating race relations further, the native Hawaiians’ trust was betrayed and their lands stolen. They invented aloha, but they also were fierce warriors with very long memories.
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T.W. Neal (Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii)