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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jackson, Shirley. "The Possibility of Evil." Just an Ordinary Day: Stories. Bantam, December 1, 1997. Paperback.

• On a beautiful summer day, Miss Adelia Strangeworth enjoys the weather as she walks along Main Street on her way to the grocery store.

• Miss Strangeworth, 71, knows everyone in her small town; she has never been away for longer than a day, as she is fond of telling the occasional tourist who stops to admire the roses in front of her home on Pleasant Street.

• The house was the first one built on Pleasant Street and has been her family home for a hundred years; her grandmother planted the roses that she now proudly tends.

• She feels almost as if the town “belong[s]” to her (418) and resents that at one time the town wanted to...

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