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Toni Morrison's Follow Hearts-Do Good Things
Follow Hearts--Do Good Things
It is a common phenomenon that when seeing other people collapse, mostly passers just walk past indifferently, currently. The essay also mainly narrates a woman's personal experience about what other people do when she collapses. The vast majority of individuals just walk by and make comments, even some people make some malicious remarks, considering that she pretends to do so to gain something. She is so disappointed until a woman stops and companies with her till her ambulance arrives. That is something to ponder why the similar things always happen.
As far as l'm concerned, l'm willing to help these who collapse, but in appropriate ways. When people faced with these things, some people
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