Can Mail automatically expand my messages?

I really, really hate the way the new version of Mail forces me to click on "See More" to expand an entire email message. I understand I can set "Include related messages" to have Mail intersperse message history in a thread, but I find it much, much easier to read an email with quoting levels and highlighting, and don't want to have to click on every single message in order to do so.
Is there any way to get Mail to automatically expand my messages? (Or to turn off the feature that collapses them.)
Thanks,
Dan.

That fixes the problem. Unfortunately I *liked* having the threaded messages; I guess I just can't have my cake and eat it too.
Thanks,
Dan.

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