C.) Human characteristics, as "personifying" means something inherits some characteristic of a human, such as sadness, anger, glee, etc.
<span>I believe the correct answer is;
</span>But sometimes (like right now), as I sit in the cool, green-draped parlor, the grindstone begins to turn, and time with all its changes is ground away—and I remember Doodle.
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But another good one is
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</span>There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to doodle.
<span>c. tradition is the only thing that prevents people from becoming uncivilized</span>
If the sentence in question is a statement (ends with a period), I would probably "however" as your transition word.
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A simply because its the only one I think seems right!