Extra Credit Questions

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You may know this story:
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings.html

Thank you Eva. I do remember this. Not as I just read it. I know I heard it before, maybe from a teacher or in a book or documentary. But it must have been downplayed or edited, or maybe it was my youth and immaturity. I remembered this as a sad story and how it turned into a happy ending. With most of the emphasis on the reunion. Now that I read this, maybe it's my age or the fact that I have children of my own, that happy ending feeling is gone. Don't get me wrong, It is still uplifting that she finds her son again. But it is not the same now. It is much more powerful and emotional to me, my heart just breaks for this poor woman and all that she had lost, and all of the hardships and wrongs that she faced throughout her lifetime.