Would she have imagined that the world famous whatever remembered how many strings were on the lyre on the bench beside the girl on the label of the cigar box he'd stated at in the tool shed at age ten while she, age eleven.

她能想象到这个世界闻名的诸如此类的人,竟然记得当她11岁，他10岁时在工具间里盯着看的,那雪茄盒上的标签上的姑娘身边,长椅上的竖琴有几根弦吗。

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And when Douglass - in Douglas' day, most whites believed in theory that blacks were subhuman, yet they'd experienced Douglas' magic, his artistry, and they'd essentially shed their racism to the degree that they'd be converted to his cause of abolitionism or anti-slavery, and there are countless examples of that happening.

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