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love and respect (someone) deeply.
He meant it to be a comedy but his intentions told him to change it
I’m assuming it means that the pencil made a loud noise as it was being sharpened?
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The narrator in John Updike's story "Son" isfinding a way to balance his love for his son with the young man's emergence into adulthood. The protagonist's growing awareness of his own mortality is the central conflict in Robert Olen Butler's story "The Trip Back."
