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e car, her crying had subsided a lot, perhaps because it had passed its peak of unrestrained release. He pondered for a moment, tossed away his half-smoked cigarette, turned around, closed his umbrell... She thought back to the past, recalling all that she had taken for granted in her youth, feeling remorse but also an even greater sense of resentment."When my father died, you promised his old man th...