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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: County said, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the
stern discipline she gave the colts she bred. "Curb them but
don't break their spirits," was Mrs. Tarleton's motto.
She loved horses and talked horses constantly. She understood
them and handled them better than any man in the County. Colts
overflowed the paddock onto the front lawn, even as her eight
children overflowed the rambling house on the hill, and colts and
sons and daughters and hunting dogs tagged after her as she went
about the plantation. She credited her horses, especially her red
mare, Nellie, with human intelligence; and if the cares of the
house kept her busy beyond the time when she expected to take her
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