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Read this excerpt from the beginning of Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose":

On the 25th March, 18–, a very strange occurrence took
place in St Petersburg.
Which option best explains why Gogol chose to begin his story in this way?

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To add background or maybe to be Ominous
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