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and rankly of melting snow, and it called to mind the small,
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scarce stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half
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a day to pick.
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Did you catch that little transition there, transition from proposition,
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"Say that this happens, say this is what my grandmother did
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and saw and smelled," to a seamless inhabitation through that free,
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indirect discourse.
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Ruth enters the mind of her grandmother and starts to inhabit
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her memories of her husband from long before the time
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when Ruth was born.
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We smell the wind, with Ruth, through the grandmother,
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and we know that it reminds her of the flowers that she and