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81 – Great Expectations

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My Father's Family Name Being Pirra, My Christian Name Being Pip

My father's family name being Pirra my Christian name being Philip. My infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip and came to be called Pip. As I never saw my father or mother, I never saw any likeness of either of them. For their days were long before the days of photographs. Their tombstones gave me an odd idea that he was a square stout dark man with curly black hair. And the character and turn of the inscription also, Georgiana wife of the above. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in neat row beside their grave - sacred to

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