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"text": "[A] fortunate accident […] happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the heels, when I was making more noise than was necessary, and, swinging me round two or three times, d——d my eyes for \"a skreeking little spalpeen,\" and then knocked my head into a cocked hat against the bed-post. This, I say, decided my fate, and made my fortune.",
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"text": "[A] fortunate accident […] happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the heels, when I was making more noise than was necessary, and, swinging me round two or three times, d——d my eyes for \"a skreeking little spalpeen,\" and then knocked my head into a cocked hat against the bed-post. This, I say, decided my fate, and made my fortune.",
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