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1. Why does Lois Lowry include the story about the outcast in her
dormitory at college?

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She mentioned a specific interaction with her 90-year-old father in a nursing home. At the time, Lowry remembers that there were family pictures on the wall of her father's room. She also remembers that, on one particular occasion, he had pointed to a picture of Helen (her sister) on the wall. Helen had died from cancer at a very young age, so she was no longer with the family. What surprised Lowry, however, was her father's comments: he had pointed to Helen in recognition but could not remember what happened to his firstborn child

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