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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: suffer as a mother suffers --poor Sophy."
"Um," Baldwin grunted.
When the official notification of Eugene's death came from the
War Department, Aunt Sophy was so calm it might have appeared
that Flora had been right. She took to her bed now in earnest,
did Flora. Sophy neglected everything to give comfort to the
stricken two.
"How can you sit there like that!" Flora would rail. "How
can you sit there like that! Even if you weren't his mother,
surely you must feel something."
"It's the way he died that comforts me," said Aunt Sophy.
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