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 {"chunk": 13, "story": 2, "summary": "An old doctor whose rich young wife died within a year of marriage sits alone in his cobwebbed office, building up truths and knocking them down again.", "predicament": "A widower withdrawn into one dusty corner spends his days building ideas and tearing them down, forgotten by everyone."},
 {"chunk": 14, "story": 2, "summary": "He wears one suit for ten years, stuffs scraps of thought into his pockets as paper balls, and has one friend; the narrator likens him to the gnarled apples only a few know are sweet.", "predicament": "An eccentric old man with a single friend is passed over by everyone, though a rare sweetness lies hidden inside him."},
 {"chunk": 15, "story": 2, "summary": "The girl came to him pregnant; after inheriting land she had been besieged by suitors, one who talked only of virginity and one who said nothing and drew her into the dark.", "predicament": "A young woman with an inheritance is pursued by many suitors who all want the same thing, one hiding it behind pious talk."},
 {"chunk": 16, "story": 2, "summary": "She came to fear the pious suitor's hidden lust, became pregnant by the silent one, and found in the old doctor a man who understood without her saying a word.", "predicament": "A frightened young woman in trouble finds an older man who understands her without a word, and never wants to leave."},
 {"chunk": 17, "story": 2, "summary": "The pregnancy ended in illness; she married the doctor that fall and died in spring, after a winter of him reading her his scraps of thought.", "predicament": "A young woman chooses an odd older man over ordinary suitors, and they share a brief private happiness before she dies."}
]