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· The following version of this short story was used to create this lesson plan: Smith, Zadie. "Crazy They Call Me." The New Yorker, 6, March 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/crazy-they-call-me.

· The story, written in second person, addresses an unknown subject saying that she never leaves the house “less than dressed” (para. 1).

· The narrator says that the subject does not want to be mistaken “for that broken, misused little girl: Eleanora Fagan” (para.1).

· The subject is said to always wear her furs.

· The narrative says that the song “Take Back your Mink” is for something else to sing, someone, unlike the subject, “who gets a smile from a cop even if she’s crossing Broadway in her oldest Terylene housedress” (para. 1).

· The first paragraph ends saying that there is no more Eleanor and no more Billie: “There is only Lady Day” (para. 1).

· Lady Day wears “three rows...

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