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1  Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we.
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2  His father was healthy but old, and lacking in self confidence.
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3  In order to test his taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out on an old newspaper.
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4  From these repeated explanations Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes there was still some money available from the old days.
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5  Gregor would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but peaceful.
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6  There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt.
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7  The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that she would strain herself.
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