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Is this the irony of fate or just a plain coincidence? Lawrence Exeter Senior sat by the foggy window, with the breath of life gone by. Just a few hours ago, he got a phone call from Flossie.
“Mr. Exeter, Junior had collapsed and was sent to the emergency room!” Her voice was mixed with panic and consternation. Lawrence’s mind went blank and his phone dropped on the white speckled with gray tiled floors.
“Dr. McCoy, are there any way to save my son?” Lawrence Exeter Senior pleaded.
“Mr. Exeter, I believe you did not know about Junior’s conditions for the past few months. Junior is diagnosed with…” Dr. McCoy remarked.
“Dr. McCoy! Patient Lawrence Exeter Junior is flat lining!” the nurse cried. Mr. McCoy and Lawrence Exeter Senior rushed to the emergency room.
“Code blue! Code blue! Get the crash cart!” the doctor shouted. “Charge the pads to 200!” “Still flat lining sir,” the nurses replied.
“Charge them to 300. No, 360. Come on Lawrence!” The doctor attempted CPR over and over again. After one hour, the doctor announced. “At 23:40 on July 5, 1931, Lawrence Exeter Junior died of…”
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It was early August 1903, and Lawrence Exeter opened the door of the coffee house, welcomed by a warm blanket of air that enveloped him in the rich aromas of fresh coffee and baked goods. He stepped into the coffee house and closed the door behind him, as he locked the chill of the cold fall day outside. Lawrence broke into a smile when he spotted Daisy. High school graduation was the last time he saw her. Lawrence had secretly liked Daisy in high school, but his lack of confidence prevented him from confessing his feelings. Consequently, she only thought of him as a good friend. Lawrence grinned, remembering how Daisy had been—ravishing a...
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...ous woman named Flossie Wentworth. Senior saw a resemblance between Flossie and Daisy. He bought her chocolates, gowns, lingerie, sport attires, and boots. Tony Spagoni is a famous restaurant and Junior goes there with Flossie. He bought a diamond ring and proposed.
After engagement, Junior gets headaches more often and frequently. He visited the hospital and he had intracranial hematoma and can only live for eight months. The same blood vessel that had burst had burst again.
Junior found the real meaning of life. It was the turnaround of his life. He did not tell Senior about his intracranial hematoma because he knew senior had done a lot to him. Junior gave some of his inheritance to Flossie. He married at the attorneys at law place. He also wrote a will. Flossie became Mrs. Lawrence Exeter Junior. Junior spent his last days with Flossie at the Tony Spagoni.
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James, Henry. Daisy Miller: A Study. The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume C Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910. Ed. Suzanne P. Weir. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 281-320.
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