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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: had ever had for them. When she had signed the papers and the
mills were irrevocably gone and Melanie was passing small glasses
of wine to Ashley and Rhett to celebrate the transaction, Scarlett
felt bereft, as though she had sold one of her children.
The mills had been her darlings, her pride, the fruit of her small
grasping hands. She had started with one little mill in those
black days when Atlanta was barely struggling up from ruin and
ashes and want was staring her in the face. She had fought and
schemed and nursed them through the dark times when Yankee
confiscation loomed, when money was tight and smart men going to
the wall. And now when Atlanta was covering its scars and
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