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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: because it was silent: "Poor fool! No, I shall never see mother
again--never go home--never have a home. I am Duane, the Lone
Wolf! Oh, God! I wish it were over! These dreams torture me!
What have I to do with a mother, a home, a wife? No
bright-haired boy, no dark-eyed girl will ever love me. I am an
outlaw, an outcast, dead to the good and decent world. I am
alone--alone. Better be a callous brute or better dead! I shall
go mad thinking! Man, what is left to you? A hiding-place like
a wolf's--lonely silent days, lonely nights with phantoms! Or
the trail and the road with their bloody tracks, and then the
hard ride, the sleepless, hungry ride to some hole in rocks or
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