| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "Where ARE you?" she asked of her spouse. "The Children's Home!"
she repeated, then followed further explanations from Jimmy which
were apparently not satisfactory. "Oh, Jimmy!" cried his
disturbed wife, "it can't be! That's horrible!"
"What is it?" shrieked Zoie, trying to get her small ear close
enough to the receiver to catch a bit of the obviously terrifying
message.
"Wait a minute," called Aggie into the 'phone. Then she turned
to Zoie with a look of despair. "The mother's changed her mind,"
she explained; "she won't give up the baby."
"Good Lord!" cried Zoie, and she sank into the nearest chair.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: each other, but forever debarred from hearing the voice or
pressing the land of the one beloved, doomed to perpetual
toil unlit by any ray of joy or hope.
Their evident affection and unhappy condition moved the
heart of His Majesty, and caused him to allow them to visit
each other once with each revolving year,--on the seventh
day of the seventh moon. But permission was not enough,
for as they looked upon the foaming waters of the turbulent
stream, they could but weep for their wretched condition,
for no bridge united its two banks, nor was it allowed that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: he remarked cautiously, "that this was a matter in which you
were specially concerned. It pleases me very much to hear it.
Even if the solution does not come, it is well to have
as many as possible turning the problem over in their minds."
"Oh, but I'm going to solve it!" Thorpe told him,
with round confidence.
The Duke pulled contemplatively at his cigar for a little.
"Do not think me a cynic," he began at last.
"You are a man of affairs; you have made your own way;
you should be even more free from illusions than I am.
If you tell me that these good things can be done,
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