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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: could always find someone to take care of her. Eight months she
stuck it out, getting more ragged every day. Then enter the man,
offering her some comfort and pleasure and love. Do you blame
her?"
"You must give me her address," Alice said softly.
Oscar nodded. "Good enough, comrade. Jeff has looked out for her,
but she needs a woman friend." With a sweep of the hand he went
back to the impersonal. "Her trouble was economic, just as ours
is. Look at it. We've got a perfect self-regulating system that
adjusts itself automatically to bring hard times when we're most
prosperous. Give us big crops and boom times, and we head straight
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