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Oh shirt One footnote to is included mainly Teo do

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what All right Footnote to well let's just go find

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it hardly to kill mark married warner books I need

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sixty to twenty The phrase her words remind us indicate

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that the author is suggesting both lee and ran stole

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came to the same conclusions The author isn't saying that

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lee actually read the article get rid of the or

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that she was even inspired by b or quoted from

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it Get rid of a pointing the reader to randall

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citation would be pointless Endeavor way did there because it

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completely misses the function of the footnote which is to

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showcase the similarities between their thoughts So get rid of

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sea It's definitely possible that lee read the article because

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it echoes the conclusions drawn But we don't have any

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proof after ali didn't cite it in her own book

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and though she may have read it later she was

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only five when it came out She may have had

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genius friends like capote but we'll assume she still wasn't

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you know super child Another right answer here It's e

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footnote to is included mainly to show that lee's writing

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echo's ran stals conclusions

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