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By the end of that hour, Paul was shaking hands with Lewis Mason to close a deal that signed Raucci under RVA’s umbrella, which included not only music but also local photographers, filmmakers, and writers in the hope of making Richmond the New York of the South. Lewis is a hard man to pin down—he isn’t much older than Paul, but he has a keen business sense and a very abrupt way of dealing with people that bothers most of them. Lewis is shrewd, calculating, a modern-day Scrooge with no humor and no life beyond the office. Once Paul realized that, he stopped taking his new partner’s lack of emotion personally. They get along a lot better now.