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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: books are there. The bedding's in the cedar chest. And the
mountains will make you clean and whole again; and the
pines . . ."
Fanny went to the telephone. Trains for Denver. She found
the road she wanted, and asked for information. She was on
her own ground here. All her life she had had to find her
own trains, check her own trunks, plan her journeys.
Sometimes she had envied the cotton-wool women who had had
all these things done for them, always.
One-half of her mind was working clearly and coolly. The
other half was numb. There were things to be done. They
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