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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Strout, Elizabeth. Oh William!. Random House 2021.
· William has been through some very sad events lately.
· He is 71 years old now.
· The narrator’s second husband, David, died last year, and in her grief for him she felt grief for William as well.
· William’s full name is William Gerhardt, and when the narrator married him she took his last name, even though at the time it was not fashionable to do so.
· It never felt right to her, and after William’s mother died, she went to the motor vehicle place to get her own name back on her driver’s license and became Lucy Barton again.
· Lucy and William were married almost 20 years before she left him and they have two daughters.
· There were times when Lucy thought she would die from...
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