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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: child."
"Fiddle-dee-dee!" said Scarlett in relief. She cast a quick glance
at the slight figure with blushing face bent over the sewing.
Melanie might want children but she certainly did not have the
figure for bearing them. She was hardly taller than a twelve-year-
old child, her hips were as narrow as a child's and her breasts
were very flat. The very thought of Melanie having a child was
repellent to Scarlett. It brought up too many thoughts she
couldn't bear thinking. If Melanie should have a child of
Ashley's, it would be as though something were taken from Scarlett
that was her own.
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