Read the excerpt from paragraph 3. Our Constitution is a remarkable, beautiful gift. But it's really just a piece of parchment. It has no power on its own.

Which word or phrase could Obama have used to combine the final two sentences and create cohesion?

Our Constitution is a remarkable, beautiful gift. But it's really just a piece of parchment, it has no power on its own.
Options for the blank are
and thus
even though
and then
nevertheless

Me read the letter. dear aunt mary, you for the wonderful painting. you are so talented! i was thrilled that you chose to paint horses. you must have remembered that i was crazy about horses when i was a little kid—and i still love them. i have hung the painting in my room so that i can see it every morning when i wake up. your loving niece, celia what makes this letter appropriate for its intended audience? it is written from the third-person point of view. it is concise and impersonal. its sentence structure is varied. its language is informal.