| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: of fortune!
We finally, as I have stated, settled at Boston,
where we remained nearly two years, I employed as
cabinet-maker and furniture broker, and my wife at
her needle; and, as our little earnings in slavery
were not all spent on the journey, we were getting
on very well, and would have made money, if we had
not been compelled by the General Government, at
the bidding of the slaveholders, to break up busi-
ness, and fly from under the Stars and Stripes to
save our liberties and our lives.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Duane allowed himself a little freedom with Fletcher, an
attitude hitherto lacking.
That afternoon a horseman rode in from Bradford, an outlaw
evidently well known and liked by his fellows, and Duane beard
him say, before he could possibly have been told the
train-robber was in Ord, that the loss of money in the holdup
was slight. Like a flash Duane saw the luck of this report. He
pretended not to have heard.
In the early twilight at an opportune moment he called Fletcher
to him, and, linking his arm within the outlaw's, he drew him
off in a stroll to a log bridge spanning a little gully. Here
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and the rest followed him. I did not; he had systematically
ignored me all morning, after having dared to kiss me the night
before. And any other man I know, after looking at me the way he
had looked a dozen times, would have been at least reasonably
glad to find me free and unmarried. But it was clear that he was
not; I wondered if he was the kind of man who always makes love
to the other man's wife and runs like mad when she is left a
widow, or gets a divorce.
And just when I had decided that I hated him, and that there was
one man I knew who would never make love to a woman whom he
thought married and then be very dignified and aloof when he
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