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Ali said that she had not played yesterday .
What is the paragraph your describing?
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mr. teller wants his dog back
He uses the allusion of shadrach meshack and abednego to show that sometimes it is ok to go to jail for breaking an unjust rule. shadrach meshack and abendago were 3 people in the bible who did not want to bow down to an idol so the king threw them in a firey furnace but an angel saved them