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Today I wanted to go out, but I was so sleep deprived I could faint at the spot. I decided to go make some breakfast, pancakes seemed good. I kept messing up because of how tired I was, and was left with a diminishing cardboard looking pancake. Eh, I was just save it for later.. I thought to myself. I had the tendency to still go out, despire being tired. I mean, it's not going to stop me isn't? As accustomed, I went out to my car and drove off to the supermarket to buy some food. It was so hard to focus on the road and I kept closing my eyes, that lead to me having a disastrous accident that damaged me and my car immensely. I got tickets as well and rested at the hospital until I healed.
I'll tell you. M' father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most unmerciful. It were a'most the only hammering he did, indeed, 'xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. - You're a-listening and understanding, Pip?"
In this excerpt, the action of "hammering"
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