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Excerpt from The Story of Mary Mecome
It was also a question unsolved by the world where she came from and who she was. Not that it mattered much. Wherever she had come from, she had done it long ago, and as for the problem of who she was, she had looked after that. She was Mary Mecome. Her name she had brought with her at least from the orphan asylum whence she had made her early indomitable entrance upon life her name and little else. Not a relation. Well, relations are sometimes troublesome to an independent spirit. Not a penny. Well, the. Greater zest in work. Not a birthday. Ah, that was a different matter. Birthdays are a universal, inalienable possession of the human race; Mary had a right to one. So she carefully considered the calendar, and chose the twenty-second of February as her natal day. I do not know that she chose any year. It would seem that certain advantages might lie in a wise refraining here, and Mary was very wise.
It was not to be doubted that she made a success of life. She earned her way steadily. Her one room never impressed the observer as being only one, and that's all.
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