…but…
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…not forgetting the man, exactly…
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…and to linger in the place where that difference was …
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…and move toward it…
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…that caused Bessie to turn…
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…but in fact contained a difference…
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…though the drawing wasn’t identical in every way…
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…a drawing of the room they were in…
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…on the screen to which he was giving his attention…
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…so that she could see…
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…and placed her hand on his shoulder...
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…even when she approached him…
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…or notice she was there…
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But the man didn’t seem to hear her…
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…for she knew somehow this was who the man was.
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“Papa?” Bessie said…
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…was a man who seemed absorbed in his work.
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…in a corner at a desk…
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And in the room that lay beyond…
