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manless,
mateless,
matress,
meatless
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mother and the latest emotion she should
How gracious it was that, in that forlorn hour of wreck and ruin, with the night of death closing around her, she should have been granted that beautiful illusion—that the latest vision which rested upon the clouded mirror of her mind should have been the vision of her mother, and the latest emotion she should know in life the joy and peace of that dear imagined presence. — from Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain
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