What's your name? Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thoma…

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What's your name? Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer. That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you? Yes ✨ Mark Twain (1992). Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, p.39, Wordsworth Editions
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