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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: was born at 5 a.m. on Sunday, the second of February, 1913. This
date was recalled because it was Candlemas, which people in Dunwich
curiously observe under another name; and because the noises in
the hills had sounded, and all the dogs of the countryside had
barked persistently, throughout the night before. Less worthy
of notice was the fact that the mother was one of the decadent
Whateleys, a somewhat deformed, unattractive albino woman of thirty-five,
living with an aged and half-insane father about whom the most
frightful tales of wizardry had been whispered in his youth. Lavinia
Whateley had no known husband, but according to the custom of
the region made no attempt to disavow the child; concerning the
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