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Blanche has unexpectedly come to visit her sister, Stella, who lives
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I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard! Father, Mother! Margaret, that dreadful way! So big with it, couldn't be put in a coffin! But had to be burned like rubbish! You just came home in time for the funerals, Stella.
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That was all, Stella! And I with my pitiful salary at the school. Yes, accuse me! Sit there and stare at me, thinking I let the place go! I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your- Polack!
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire Signet Books, 1951. pp.26-7.
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