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Homer had an opportunity to change his relationship with Sandra, but choose not to do anything about it. The moment that he has been waiting for, “the conjunction of circumstances that, through the steady exertion of will, minor adjustments of time and place, he had often tried to induce, never happened” (167). Homer had been waiting for a moment alone with her that he could show his feeling for her to come but it had not. He wanted to just tell her and just hope that she may feel the same way for him. The moment of being together side by side, or even in each other arms would confirm what he felt. When the moment finally happened, “there was a fleeting, shuddering moment before he stepped through the woods to his cabin and she went to her
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