For the answer to the question above, Miley had a mare that the boys liked to call the "fifteen-minute nag." She seemed really old and slow, and she had asthma. She’d get a head start, then amble along until the end of the race, when she’d suddenly start bolting ahead like crazy, wheezing, until she would win, but barely.
I would say:
The past passed very quickly.
Answer:
sneezing
Explanation:
I say this because of the last sentence, No matter how hard you try to go against it, it still comes out. You still end up sneezing.
"the occasional scratch of her pen exerted just enough pressure to keep away the frightening shadows, the sad spirits from long ago, locked into events that couldn't change."
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