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sex), I shall have to wear my hair in locks just long enough to cover up my coat collar and snaggle around my ears. If I am a girl (I feel rather certain that I am a girl), never shall I be able to see my long brown curls stream in the wind as I run along the Palisades, for I shall have to wear my hair cropped close like the mane of a shorn Shetland pony.

I have not dared to hope for brothers and sisters. As I am the first-born, I can never have older ones to tease and annoy me so delightfully as I should like to have them do. I shall never have younger ones unless they are more argumentative than I, for my mother seems entirely satisfied with me.

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