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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: place, proud of its growth, proud of themselves for making it
grow. Let the older towns call Atlanta anything they pleased.
Atlanta did not care.
Scarlett had always liked Atlanta for the very same reasons that
made Savannah, Augusta and Macon condemn it. Like herself, the
town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old
often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed
and vigorous new. Moreover, there was something personal,
exciting about a town that was born--or at least christened--the
same year she was christened.
The night before had been wild and wet with rain, but when
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