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The Member of the Wedding

 Carson McCullers
 

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They are the we of me.
 
 
 
A last difference about that morning was the way her world seemed layered in three different parts, all the twelve years of the old Frankie, the present day itself, and the future ahead when the three of them would be together in all the many distant places.
 
 
 
Her father went back behind the gray sour velvet curtain that divided the store into two parts, the larger public part in front and behind a small dusty private part.
 
 
 
If you start with A and go on up to G, there is a curious thing that seems to make the difference between G and A all the difference in the world. Twice as much difference as between any other two notes in the scale. Yet they are side by side there on the piano just as close together as the other notes.
 
 
 
Yet at the same time you almost might use the word loose instead of caught. Although they are two opposite words.
 
 
 
 
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