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the question we're gonna start with it first the author throughout the use of

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the word front when the line on T never there to mean what line nineteen or [text on screen]

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we're gonna cruise all the way back because I believe deliberately to front

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only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to

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teach and not when I came to die discover that I cannot live well the

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correct answer here is a face why well the first tip in the Shmoop guide to [woman's face]

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making one's life easier is to try substituting the answer choices in place

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for the word front face is the word that makes the most sense in this context in

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his old tiny way Thoreau is saying that he wants to face the facts of life [Thoreau gets knocked out in the woods]

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head-on Thoreau wants genuine experiences in his life so he certainly [girl walking]

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does not want to pretend be in any fashion he might want to lead other

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people to the essential facts of life but in the context of this sentence well

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we'd have to be assuming he'd like to lead the facts

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whatever that means besides facts like cats well facts can't be led either the [cat]

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facts of life don't need thorough support D and there's nothing in this

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passage to indicate that's his intention in fact this passage is mostly about [man holding up a 'facts' sign]

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what the facts of life are not

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