| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: lovely creature off her feet and into his strong arms. That was a
heady feeling.
No friend or relative stood up with them at their marriage. The
witnesses were strangers called in from the street. Scarlett had
insisted on that and he had given in, though reluctantly, for he
would have liked his sister and his brother-in-law from Jonesboro
to be with him. And a reception with toasts drunk to the bride in
Miss Pitty's parlor amid happy friends would have been a joy to
him. But Scarlett would not hear of even Miss Pitty being present.
"Just us two, Frank," she begged, squeezing his arm. "Like an
elopement. I always did want to run away and be married! Please,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: gurgled Kezia, while they lay there laughing in each other's arms. "Come,
that's enough, my squirrel! That's enough, my wild pony!" said old Mrs.
Fairfield, setting her cap straight. "Pick up my knitting."
Both of them had forgotten what the "never" was about.
Chapter 1.VIII.
The sun was still full on the garden when the back door of the Burnells'
shut with a bang, and a very gay figure walked down the path to the gate.
It was Alice, the servant-girl, dressed for her afternoon out. She wore a
white cotton dress with such large red spots on it and so many that they
made you shudder, white shoes and a leghorn turned up under the brim with
poppies. Of course she wore gloves, white ones, stained at the fastenings
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: Of such unsullied substance, that your hearts
Leap with glad awe to see it clothing me,
The glory of whose nakedness you know?
``The Song of the Unborn''
Amelia Josephine Burr
There is but one practical and feasible program in handling the great
problem of the feeble-minded. That is, as the best authorities are
agreed, to prevent the birth of those who would transmit imbecility to
their descendants. Feeble-mindedness as investigations and statistics
from every country indicate, is invariably associated with an
abnormally high rate of fertility. Modern conditions of civilization,
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