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... Mother's grand- mother . The house always seemed dark , musty , and cold . She had never liked that house , even when Father was alive . In retrospect , she was rather happy about the burglary . It would have seemed rather insensitive ...
... Mother's grand- mother . The house always seemed dark , musty , and cold . She had never liked that house , even when Father was alive . In retrospect , she was rather happy about the burglary . It would have seemed rather insensitive ...
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... mother . That's what it does - just like my mother . " And to Art , too , without knowing , it sounded like her mother , and like her mother's mother , back , back to a mother who had sung it long before the oil- stained highway snaked ...
... mother . That's what it does - just like my mother . " And to Art , too , without knowing , it sounded like her mother , and like her mother's mother , back , back to a mother who had sung it long before the oil- stained highway snaked ...
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... mother looked at him for a min- ute , then turned and looked at his wife , and shrugged . " So I have to be punished because I wanted the best for my chil- dren . I did such a terrible thing , " she said in a spare , toneless voice ...
... mother looked at him for a min- ute , then turned and looked at his wife , and shrugged . " So I have to be punished because I wanted the best for my chil- dren . I did such a terrible thing , " she said in a spare , toneless voice ...
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