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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by birthing hipsters They were in the hospital's way before

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hospitals were cool Okay just check out following passage and

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don't think about the afterbirth eighteen sixty eight and board

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huh They would've current that's real love roger button Now

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which of the following is the author's most likely purpose

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in focusing on the button couples Enviable position in society

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The answer choices Bala All right well wow Fitzgerald is

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giving us a lot of fresh and sassy attitude in

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these few paragraphs with references to fashionable hospitals and the

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this family and that family well it's pretty clear fitzy

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doesn't take the buttons or other elites very seriously He

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has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek here poking

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fun at the absurdity of their attitudes excesses and lifestyle

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So what exactly is he up Tio fitzgerald is definitely

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not trying to identify with these people and the fact

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that the buttons have a high position in society may

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contribute to the plot but that's not the reason fitzgerald's

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placed them in the spotlight he's criticizing the buttons questioning

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and mocking their motivations and priorities which makes a the

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correct answer Luckily hospitals haven't gone out of style Sometimes

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natural seems unnatural very quickly sort of like when we 00:01:27.42 --> [endTime] got indoor plumbing

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