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· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Munro, Alice. "Runaway." The New Yorker, 2003. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/08/11/runaway-4.

· The story opens with the main character Carla.

· Carla stands at the barn door and hears a car coming, which she is sure must be Mrs. Sylvia Jamieson returning from her vacation in Greece.

· Mrs. Jamieson lived about a half mile down the road from Clark and Carla’s.

· Carla watches the road hoping it is not Mrs. Jamieson, but soon sees that it is.

· Mrs. Jamieson, tanned with bleached hair, does not notice Carla.

· Clark is not aware that Mrs. Jamieson has returned yet, but Carla knows he will soon see her driving to town for groceries, or, she may call.

· It had been a very rainy summer and, though Carla and Clark had posted signs all over town, “nobody...

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