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71 - I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane · I, Mary MacLane

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventy one of I Mary mc lean by Mary
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  Speaker 1: mc lean. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: recording by Lynn Thompson, Chapter seventy one, The sub Divided
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  Speaker 1: Cell to Morrow. When I was twenty, I was one
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  Speaker 1: strong cell, firmly primly closing, many little cells, different from
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  Speaker 1: each other, but each greenly intact. When I was thirty,
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  Speaker 1: the cell had burst in dusty, worldly winds and loosed
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  Speaker 1: the little cells. Those in turn had subdivided, losing strength
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  Speaker 1: by the cellful, but gaining in shadowed truth by a
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  Speaker 1: roundabout road. And they showed me my fates and inevitablenesses
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  Speaker 1: as in a broad wrecked field, misty but plainter view.
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  Speaker 1: And thus I see me in the sub divided cells.
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  Speaker 1: A piece of a normal woman, a piece of a child,
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  Speaker 1: a piece of a poet, a piece of a lesbian woman,
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  Speaker 1: a piece of a writer, a piece of a jester,
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  Speaker 1: a piece of a savage, a piece of something some
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  Speaker 1: way brave, a piece of a student, a patriotic American,
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  Speaker 1: a lump of tiredness. My strength is in knowing the
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  Speaker 1: evil from the good, and the false from the true
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  Speaker 1: in it. My weakness is in wildly waveringly inclining toward
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  Speaker 1: the false, except for love of my country, I am Ardenta, determiner,
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  Speaker 1: stronger in my falseness than in any of my shadowy truth.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter seventy one.