| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: I was jest going to say that not knowing he was
that there David Armstrong I didn't think it any
of his business, when Colonel Tom, he says to
Doctor Kirby--I mean to David Armstrong:
"Why should you be concerned as to her where-
abouts? You ruined her life and then deserted her."
Doctor Kirby--I mean David Armstrong--
stands there with the blood going up his face into
his forehead slow and red.
"Tom," he says, "you and I seem to be working
at cross purposes. Maybe it would help some if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: wall at the opposite side of the room. Flora drew her breath in
between her teeth as though a knife had entered her heart.
Adele still stood at the side of the bed, looking at her mother.
Her hands were clasped behind her, too. In that moment, as she
stood there, she resembled her mother and her father so
startlingly and simultaneously that the two, had they been less
absorbed in their own affairs, must have marked it.
The girl's head came up stiffly. "Listen. I'm going to marry
Daniel Oakley."
Daniel Oakley was fifty, and a friend of her father's. For years
he had been coming to the house and for years she had ridiculed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: At a distance it had seemed an easy thing to plan the escape of
David Henderson and to accomplish it by craft, but a sight of the
heavy stone walls that encircled the prison and of the numerous
armed guards who paced to and fro on the walls, put a more
chilling aspect on their chances.
"It isn't a very gay outlook," Bucky admitted cheerfully to his
companion, "but I expect we can pull it off somehow. If these
Mexican officials weren't slower than molasses in January it
might have been better to wait and have him released by process
of law on account of Hardman's confession. But it would take them
two or three years to come to a decision. They sure do hate to
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