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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER II
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The doctors were fussin' over her for weeks before they could find out what the trouble was, but I said all along it wan't nothin' in the world but a bruised heart, and sure enough that was just what they found out was the matter.

You ain't had a feelin' of heart burn after you eat, have you?
Sometimes it don't take you that way, though; you just begin to have palpitations when you go up and down stairs and then you start to wakin' up in the night with shortness of breath.

That's the way my Aunt Lydy had it.

You know I nursed her till she died, and I've seen her get right black in the face when she stooped to pick up a pin.

It's her daughter Lydy that's waiting on old Mrs.Peyton now.


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