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Prompt 10 - Why is the sky blue?
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Selzer, Richard. "The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold" from The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. New York : Pearson Education, 2nd Ed., 2002, Pg. 173-176.
Gawande, Atul. "Final Cut: Medical Arrogance and the Decline of the Autopsy" from The New Yorker. March 19, 2001, Pg.1-10.
Gopnik, Adam. "Dog story" from The big New Yorker book of dogs. New York : Random House, 2012, Pg. 7-19.
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