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1  Mrs. Wilson was first concerned with the dog.
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2  I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.
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3  There is always a halt there of at least a minute and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress.
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4  Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.
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5  Just as Tom and Myrtle--after the first drink Mrs. Wilson and I called each other by our first names--reappeared, company commenced to arrive at the apartment door.
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6  The first supper--there would be another one after midnight--was now being served, and Jordan invited me to join her own party who were spread around a table on the other side of the garden.
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