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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: who might in the natural course of things have always remained
unknown, or at all events indifferent to you, should he mentioned
before you, immediately details begin to group themselves about
the name, and you find all your friends talking to you about
something which they have never mentioned to you before. You
discover that this person was almost touching you and has passed
close to you many times in your life without your noticing it;
you find coincidences in the events which are told you, a real
affinity with certain events of your own existence. I was not
absolutely at that point in regard to Marguerite, for I had seen
and met her, I knew her by sight and by reputation; nevertheless,
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