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Can you find the important difference between "Old Mistresses Apologue" and "Suggested Husbands for Fanny Burney"? Unfortunately, the answer isn't the titles. That would be too easy, and the world ain't an easy place. 


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by relationships ending one is just

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like adjusting your underwear You feel better when the creeps

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gone Uh yeah we went there Sorry people Okay well

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mistresses apple ogg and suggested husbands for fanny burning were

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skimming Oh we're tired of reading this thing again and

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again But it's great it's awesome writing Yep we love

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you test creators Uh huh Its really good All right

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we're done We're done skimming Okay here we go All

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right what is the important difference between the letter old

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mistresses apple log and literary text suggested husbands for fanny

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burney All right what's the important difference between and here

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the potential answers letters much speaking All right well the

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key word in this question is the word imports as

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long as we keep that in mind this one degrees

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if asked to find the difference that matters the least

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Well we'd have a tougher time of it because well

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most of these don't matter all that much pick choice

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See for instance please sure Most of franklin's letter is

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organized as a list and most of fanny's pieces in

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dialogue But like who cares Right There has to be

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some deeper contrast we confined between these two passages We're

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looking for big ideas here Big big big people The

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same thing goes for answered It's true that the second

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passage has a bunch of people talking while the first

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speaker flies solo But this kind of thing is the

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gravy and were looking for me Answer is probably the

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least important option so far One there's no date on

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fanny's peace so we can't be sure if it's newer

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than franklin's unless we do some googling but that's kind

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of a no no when taking goc option is the

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correct answer because it's the on ly one that hits

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on anything of substance franklin's letter shows us a man

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speaking to a man's needs while fanny's piece shows a

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woman thinking about a woman's needs he's from mars She's

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from venus Oh when will they ever find common ground

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on a planet with a breathable atmosphere that be kind 00:02:23.15 --> [endTime] of nice Oh no

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