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uspected. Your mother was not herself in

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tamped. Correspondence with Professor Armitage about my cor

slowly. "That is a st

or over twenty years. Loyal, observant, and silenced after Elli

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failures, Miss Ellie. That you wished she would... g

ched. "Why didn't y

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, Maria. Will you testify? Will

chin firm. "For your m

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