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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: was his old maid sister. She wasn't no spring
chicken, Estelle wasn't, and they was a continuous
grin on her face. I figgered it must of froze there
years and years ago. They was a kid about ten
or eleven years old come along down with her,
that had hair down to its shoulders and didn't
look like it knowed whether it was a girl or a boy.
Miss Estelle, she looks me over in a way that makes
me shiver, while the doctor and the perfessor jaws
about whose fault it is the smallpox sign ain't been
hung out. And when she was done listening she
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