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Love the repetition of 'Failure' especially when she belts us with it as first word of new paragraph (twice). ("Forlorn! the very word is like a bell", Keats) The banana: Id have it as an actual rather than imagined banana, she finds the rotten fruit her fingers sink into it while clearing out the desk aargg this is awful and THEN is hit by (what's far worse) losing the job.

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