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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: because I do not cut my hair, and because I
have visions. At home, in the old country,
there were many like me, who had been touched
by God, or who had seen things in the grave-
yard at night and were different afterward. We
thought nothing of it, and let them alone. But
here, if a man is different in his feet or in his
head, they put him in the asylum. Look at
Peter Kralik; when he was a boy, drinking out
of a creek, he swallowed a snake, and always
after that he could eat only such food as the
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