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Gately's dreams: Mrs. Waite, and Death (p. 847)

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Gately’s also powerless over memories of the older-type lady that had been their neighbor when he and his mother shared bed and board with the M.P. A Mrs. Waite. There was no Mr. Waite.

Context

The pivot out of the first framed dream and into the scene's center: AA's Step One word — powerless — applied to memory itself. Involuntary memory bracketed by the two framed dreams, and the bracketing word is the Program's most loaded one.

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