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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: be girls. Amedee slapped Frank on the back
and asked him why he didn't see what the
fortune-teller would promise him. But Frank
shook off his friendly hand and grunted, "She
tell my fortune long ago; bad enough!" Then
he withdrew to a corner and sat glowering at
his wife.
Frank's case was all the more painful because
he had no one in particular to fix his jealousy
upon. Sometimes he could have thanked the
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