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I can't believe that awful, no good man, John Proctor. He had the audacity to choose that whining wife over me. I am way better than that goody too shoes Elizabeth Proctor. We have vastly different character traits; we are like day night. She is a naive, simple woman. I on the other hand am an adventurer. I am knowledgeable, healthy, and certainly far from simple. Why, any man would be lucky to have me as their wife. Elizabeth is a old hag who should just disappear. I am a beautiful, young, healthy woman. Yet alas, the man I want so desperately is connected to this evil witch of a woman! I mean can she be anymore annoying? She is always nagging me and everyone else in

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