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She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

Betty Smith
Pain, Oil, Alive
BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it