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Now the weekly Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called the Line of Least Resistance ( 最省力的方法 ). It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. Mr. Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millice

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When my great grandma Anna came to America. She wore the same thick coat and big boots she had worn when she worked on her family's farm. But her family did not farm anymore. In New York City her father carried things on a wagon. The rest of the fami

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One December night, a long long time ago, a family sat around the fireplace in their home. A golden light from the fire filled the room. The mother and father laughed at something their oldest daughter had just said. The girl was seventeen, much olde

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