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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: Tessie, walking slowly past it, and peering through the high iron
fence, could not help noting an air of unwonted excitement about
the place, usually so aloof, so coldly serene. Automobiles
standing out in front. People going up and down. They didn't
look very cheerful. Just as if it mattered whether anything
happened to her or not!
Tessie walked around the block and stood a moment, uncertainly.
Then she struck off down Grand Avenue and past Donovan's pool
shack. A little group of after-supper idlers stood outside,
smoking and gossiping, as she knew there would be. As she turned
the corner she saw Nap Ballou among them. She had known that,
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