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“Sometimes they let her sleep in the morning, and when she awoke she looked at the clock by her pillow and began wailing. She would be late for school again. It embarrassed her to be late, she would not go to school at all. If, on the other hand, they awoke her in time for school, she pulled the quilt over her head and pretended that she had not slept a wink. When she awoke again, she would be in tears because she was late.”

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