JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{
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"chunk": 712,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe describes a gullible newcomer, 'Simple Simon', whom the men stuff with tall tales; Simon, who arrived late after an illness, wishes he had been on the recent raid so he could have picked up souvenirs.",
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"predicament": "A credulous latecomer joins a bored group that has already decided he will believe anything it tells him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 713,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe passes on Simon's craze for souvenirs to the jokers, who sell him a bottle of cigarette smoke as tear gas and two laths tied together as a piece of a famous airman's plane.",
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"predicament": "A man passes on a colleague's harmless enthusiasm to the jokers, who promptly begin selling him worthless junk at high prices."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 714,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe sometimes feels sorry enough for Simon to tip him off but does not want to spoil the fun; he complains that his wife has written only once in a month, with a thin excuse.",
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"predicament": "A man feels sorry for the butt of a cruel joke but keeps quiet rather than spoil everyone's fun."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 715,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Nothing happens except when their own artillery provokes the Germans into shelling back, which only means more repair work; Keefe thinks both sides would do better left alone.",
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"predicament": "A man stuck in a quiet stretch resents those on his own side who keep provoking the other side into hitting back."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 716,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "When comrades argue that the Allies are wisely waiting for the Germans to wear themselves out, Keefe scoffs from his big-league 'experience' of strategy; he tells a joker to try his line on Simple Simon.",
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"predicament": "A man lectures his colleagues on strategy from his experience in an unrelated line of work, and brushes off their jokes."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 717,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "The jokers tell Simon the trenches opposite are empty; Keefe is glad they have someone besides himself to pick on and claims, implausibly, that he only pretended to fall for their gags. Next letter: another joke on Simon.",
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"predicament": "Relieved that a newcomer has replaced him as the group's target, a man insists he was always too clever to be fooled."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 718,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Simon notices flares going up every night from the 'empty' trenches and asks who throws them; Brady says a flare thrower was left behind, and Simon points out they come from different places.",
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"predicament": "A gullible man finally spots a flaw in the tall tale he was told, and asks the tellers to explain it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 719,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Alcock invents a one-legged German who rides a motorcycle up and down the line throwing flares, and answers each of Simon's objections with a more absurd explanation.",
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"predicament": "When the gullible one raises a sensible objection, the jokers only pile on a wilder story, and he goes on taking it seriously."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 720,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Brady and Phillips stage a show around a cracked, dirty pocket mirror, pretending it is a rare German prize, until Simon offers his last four francs down and six more on credit for it.",
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"predicament": "Colleagues stage an elaborate show around a worthless trinket until the gullible one offers everything he has, and more on credit."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 721,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Simon has lost his last money; Keefe predicts the men will sell him their shaved whiskers next, and declares that he himself would never join such a 'skin game'.",
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"predicament": "A man watching colleagues fleece a simpleton condemns the swindle loudly, while having done nothing to stop it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 722,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe reports that the captain and officers are furious the regiment has been left in a dead sector while others fight elsewhere, and are blaming the men for not showing more; Keefe resents being blamed.",
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"predicament": "Those above are angry that the group has achieved nothing, when it was those above who left it with nothing to do."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 723,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Brady tells Simon about a legendary 'Souvenir Joe' who gathered his collection by crawling into no man's land between the one-legged flare man's rounds, and urges Simon to get a real collection before they are moved.",
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"predicament": "The jokers dare a gullible colleague to prove himself by doing something genuinely dangerous, dressed up as a safe and easy prize."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 724,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe considers warning Simon that he could be killed out there, but decides that if he is that simple he is better off dead. Next letter: Keefe announces that his wife has had a daughter he did not know was coming.",
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"predicament": "A man sees a colleague being talked into real danger, thinks about warning him, and decides it is not his business."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 725,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "The news came from his sister-in-law, whom he dislikes and hopes the cook will outlast; he is thrilled, forbids his wife to name the baby without him, and urges Al and Bertha to adopt an orphan.",
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"predicament": "A man far away learns from a relative he dislikes that he has a new child, and tries to direct things from afar."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 726,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "The men now call Keefe 'Papa'. In the next letter he writes, shaken, that Simple Simon has vanished overnight, and that he has promised not to tell what the men put him up to; he recalls a happy dream of arriving home.",
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"predicament": "A cruel joke on a simple colleague seems to have ended in his disappearance, and a man has promised to keep quiet about it."
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{
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"chunk": 727,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "In his dream his baby daughter was suddenly three, ran to him calling daddy, and the whole family danced together; he woke in the trench still happy.",
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"predicament": "A man far from a family he has barely known dreams of a joyful homecoming, and wakes still warmed by it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 728,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Corporal Evans asks Keefe about Simon; Keefe starts to blame Alcock and Brady, but Evans already knows about the teasing and tells him to wait two days before saying anything that would get everybody in trouble.",
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"predicament": "Someone just above a man tells him to keep quiet about colleagues' part in a disappearance, at least until it is clearer."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 729,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "It emerges that while Keefe was announcing his daughter, Alcock told Simon to forget shell fragments and bring back a 'Saxon' from the shell holes near the German wire, without telling him what one was.",
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"predicament": "A joker, carrying a prank one step too far, has sent a gullible colleague after something that could get him killed."
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{
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"chunk": 730,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe insists no one can blame him though he might have intervened, calls himself the only one with a heart, and says the jokers are sick only from fear of court-martial; he is on watch tonight and expects he may die going out after Simon.",
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"predicament": "A man insists he bears no blame for a colleague's fate, casts the others as heartless, and braces to put it right himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 731,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "He thinks of his daughter growing up fatherless and of Simon out in the dark. Five weeks later, writing from hospital with one arm useless, he boasts of the pretty nurse who wrote to Al for him and of his own endurance.",
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"predicament": "Laid up after an injury, a man boasts to a friend about how bravely he bore it and how much his helper admires him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 732,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe says he nearly died and the doctor praised his toughness, then begins the story of the night of June 14, recalling the jokers' tale that no man's land was safe between the flare man's rounds.",
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"predicament": "Recovering from a near-fatal injury, a man settles down to tell a friend at length exactly how it happened."
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{
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"chunk": 733,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "On watch, Keefe saw a figure crawling beyond the wire by flarelight; when Corporal Evans said one of them must go, Keefe volunteered, and only when Evans told him to take his rifle did he consider it might not be Simon.",
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"predicament": "Sure a lost colleague is out in the dark, a man volunteers to fetch him before considering that it may be someone else."
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{
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"chunk": 734,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe crawled slowly and silently out in the dark, and when he reached the spot and put out his hand, the man he touched was not Simon.",
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"predicament": "Creeping out in the dark to rescue someone, a man reaches out and finds it is not the person he came for."
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{
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"chunk": 735,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe fought the stranger bare-handed while the man bit his hand; the man's yell drew fire from both sides and Keefe was hit three times. Weeks later he learned his opponent was his comrade Alcock, whom he boasts he beat with one fist.",
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"predicament": "A man fights a stranger in the dark, is badly hurt by the uproar it causes, and learns the stranger was a colleague."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 736,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Alcock, guilt-stricken, had gone out searching for Simon himself; each took the other for a German. Simon turned up half an hour later dragging a long-dead Saxon he claimed to have caught alive.",
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"predicament": "Two men who each set out to rescue the same missing colleague maul each other, while he wanders home unharmed and boasting."
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"chunk": 737,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe and Alcock bear no grudge; his leg is mending but his left arm may never be right, and he brags that the little nurse is in no hurry to see him go. In the next letter, from a port, he has time on his hands before sailing home.",
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"predicament": "Maimed by a colleague's blunder and his own, a man shrugs off the grudge and brags about the attention of his helper."
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"chunk": 738,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe is being sent home for good; he thanks God it was not his throwing arm and assumes his war record will make him a money-maker for his old ball club even if he cannot pitch.",
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"predicament": "Sent home with a lasting injury, a man assumes his sacrifice will make his old employer glad to take him back on his terms."
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"chunk": 739,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "In the quiet port Keefe still flinches at imagined guns; besides his wounds, he is being sent home to help promote the Liberty Loan as a popular hero, and agrees so he can be with his family.",
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"predicament": "A man sent home early is asked to be the public face of a fundraising drive, and agrees for the sake of home."
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"chunk": 740,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Leaving the hospital, Keefe imagines the pretty nurse heartbroken over him and reminds himself he is a married father; he says his wound is a better souvenir than Simon's fakes. Next letter: he is home in Chicago.",
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"predicament": "Leaving behind someone who cared for him, a married man imagines her heartbroken, and reminds himself of his duty at home."
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"chunk": 741,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Keefe is feted in New York and arrives home unannounced to surprise his wife, who flings herself on him, then cries over his arm; he jokes that they have each been through something.",
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"predicament": "A man returns home unannounced after a long, hard absence and is greeted with more tears and fuss than he expected."
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"chunk": 742,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "He meets his baby daughter; told the sister-in-law has left, and that his wife calls the baby Marie, he proposes the name Charlotte, and his wife instantly guesses it belongs to one of his nurses.",
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"predicament": "A man tries to slip a name from his time away into family life, and his wife sees straight through it."
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"chunk": 743,
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"story": 17,
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"summary": "Caught out, Keefe says the name he really wanted was his wife's own, and the baby is named Florrie; he notes the Germans are now retreating since his old regiment went into battle, and says he cannot leave home anyway.",
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"predicament": "Caught out by his wife, a man hastily offers a flattering alternative, and it becomes the settled choice."
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}
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