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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: "MY DEAR ARMAND:--I have received your letter. You are still
good, and I thank God for it. Yes, my friend, I am ill, and with
one of those diseases that never relent; but the interest you
still take in me makes my suffering less. I shall not live long
enough, I expect, to have the happiness of pressing the hand
which has written the kind letter I have just received; the words
of it would be enough to cure me, if anything could cure me. I
shall not see you, for I am quite near death, and you are
hundreds of leagues away. My poor friend! your Marguerite of old
times is sadly changed. It is better perhaps for you not to see
her again than to see her as she is. You ask if I forgive you;
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