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On her bed she laid out the black gown and diamond necklace she wanted to wear.
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Divers, working in the pitch black in deep and torrid water, were able to find the car on the river bed and the bodies of four men were recovered.
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Lying in bed in his nightshirt and black woolen stockings, Hopkins recited his Morning Offering, then stood to use the chamber pot.
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She could neither read nor write, had never been to school, never been to a hospital or a clinic or a dentist, had never had a new dress or owned a pair of shoes, had gone to bed hungry on more nights than she could remember, and, like millions of other black South Africans, she had learned to settle for what was there and to expect nothing more.
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