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Roz is the reader’s proxy, an innocent who acclimates to the complex rhythms of the natural world.

Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

It took months to acclimate to being around so many people.

“If you’ve been somewhere for a year, you get more comfortable, you get more acclimated. And when you have success, you gain confidence.”

People have largely acclimated to their presence, he said.