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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: were already in debt had to give up their
land. A few foreclosures demoralized the
county. The settlers sat about on the wooden
sidewalks in the little town and told each other
that the country was never meant for men to
live in; the thing to do was to get back to Iowa,
to Illinois, to any place that had been proved
habitable. The Bergson boys, certainly, would
have been happier with their uncle Otto, in the
bakery shop in Chicago. Like most of their
neighbors, they were meant to follow in paths
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