| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "My example?"
"Yes, going to get married."
The young man gasped. A look of surprise, of amusement, then of
generous sympathy came over his face. He grasped Lawton's hand.
"Who is she?"
"Oh, a woman I wanted more than anything in the world when I was
about your age."
"Then she isn't young?"
"She is better than young."
"Well," agreed the young man, "being young and pretty is not
everything."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: its dainty depths. She was only a little Creole seaside girl,
you must know, and very shy of the city demoiselles. Natalie's
patois was quite as different from Annette's French as it was
from the postmaster's English.
"Mees Annette," she began, peony-hued all over at her own
boldness, "we will have one lil' hay-ride this night, and a
fish-fry at the end. Will you come?"
Annette sprang to her feet in delight. "Will I come? Certainly.
How delightful! You are so good to ask me. What shall--what
time--" But Natalie's pink bonnet had fled precipitately down
the shaded walk. Annette laughed joyously as Philip lounged down
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: Anningait, that he could no longer be restrained
from a declaration of his love. He therefore
composed a poem in her praise, in which, among other
heroick and tender sentiments, he protested, that
"she was beautiful as the vernal willow, and
fragrant as the thyme upon the mountains; that her
fingers were white as the teeth of the morse, and
her smile grateful as the dissolution of the ice; that
he would pursue her, though she should pass the
snows of the midland cliffs, or seek shelter in the
caves of the eastern cannibals: that he would tear
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