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Scroll down to the end of section 13 and begin with, “One evening my mother told me that thereafter I would have to do the shopping for food.”
Continue reading through into section 14, ending with, "There he is!"
How does the author’s emotion change between the first paragraph of Excerpt 2 and the rest of the excerpt?
What two pieces of evidence from the text best demonstrate the shift in emotion?
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