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Excerpt from Outrageous Fortune: A Novel
Then, without a hint of self-pity, and indeed with a certain incongruous buoyancy, White wright said that three of his sisters had died of consumption, that he was the only child left, and that his father's dream of one day seeing him a successful physician would never be realized.
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