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The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.
My siblings and I Because me is used as I and you sister and brother can be used as you siblings
True, the speaker in the poem, a farmer, is concerned with loyalty: He is struggling to decide how much loyalty he owes a none-too-reliable former employee who has returned in his absence and whom his wife says is dying
Speech because if the second e was not there, then the word would be spech, making the e a short vowel, and float because without the a, float would become flot, once again, making the o a short vowel.