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Dangerously in Love: Eighteen-year-old girl No One's a Mystery

There are three characters in Elizabeth Tallent's "No One's a Mystery" (Beaty 5-8), but only two speak, Jack and the no named eighteen-year-old girl. The other character happens to be Jack's wife who is only spoken about as she drives by Jack and the hidden girl. Jack portrays her as being irritating; this occurs in second the paragraph. He makes this accusation because "she keeps the light on in the daytime"(referring to her car lights), Which to him serves as a pet peeve.
The eighteen-year-old girl serves as the narrator for this story, but she is far more valuable to us for her aspirations and attitude undoubtedly make the story flow.
In the first statement that she makes, we find out that she recently had her eighteenth birthday, and from Jack she receives a five-year diary with latch and a little key, which she describes "being as light as a dime." From there we see our first example of how much Jack actually......

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