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  1. Jun 2025
    1. For rats

      This would be what most people wouls use arsenic for. Emily is a very respected woman around town so nobody was going to really question her. The town somewhat fearing her is a big reason why she got away with murder.

    2. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One ofus lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry andacrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair

      We now know that Emily had in fact killed Homer. In a very twisted way I understand her. She wanted nothing more than to be loved and made sure she had the one she wanted. Got to love a girl who knows what she wants.

    1. They send me to eat in the kitchen

      They writer is sent to the kitchen when company comes over. The others do not want him to be seen. Why must they be sent away? They are the same as the people who get to sit at the table.

    2. I, too, am America.

      The writer is the same as everyone else. They are American born and raised. They are the same as everyone else walking down the street.

    1. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

      Richard’s was the one to be the bearer of bad news. Telling someone a loved one had passed is the worst possible feeling. Adds so many more feelings to the grief process.