| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: satisfied with it. She had been sixteen years old for six months.
"Isabelle!" called her cousin Sally from the doorway of the
dressing-room.
"I'm ready." She caught a slight lump of nervousness in her
throat.
"I had to send back to the house for another pair of slippers.
It'll be just a minute."
Isabelle started toward the dressing-room for a last peek in the
mirror, but something decided her to stand there and gaze down
the broad stairs of the Minnehaha Club. They curved
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: Viola B. who ran away from New York and got caught, and was so
much talked about in the newspapers.
Thus her story would run along at great length, Birdie in the
meanwhile chuckling with the thought of her own escapades.
We never recommended institution life because it seemed as if
better things might be done for this girl. We felt that if she
were built up from a physical standpoint her tendency towards
nervous excitement might grow less. Her tonsils were removed.
Every one felt that the girl's good mental abilities should be
conserved to the utmost. Attempts at management in a different
environment gave some hope of success, and after a time her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: of the conversation himself.
"I should think that the people opposite, who live so near the
place where the murder was committed, wouldn't be very much pleased,"
he said. "I shouldn't care to look out on such a spot every time
I went to my window."
"There aren't any windows there," exclaimed the landlord, "for
there aren't any houses there. There's only the old garden, and
then the large garden and the park belonging to Mr. Thorne's house,
that fine old house you see just opposite here. It's a good thing
that Mr. Thorne and his wife went away before the murder became
known. The lady hasn't been well for some weeks, she's very nervous
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