Sound and meaning
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You recognize the sentence on the page. Then someone says it, and it seems to disappear.
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American Stories · No. 002
The letter had been in the kitchen for forty years. Ellen had never read it.
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Sound and meaning
You recognize the sentence on the page. Then someone says it, and it seems to disappear.
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