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The essay, "Calling Home" by Jean Brandt starts off with Jean, Louis, Susan, and the grandmother all in the car singing Christmas music on the way to the mall. They are going to the mall to finish their last minute Christmas shopping. Once they get to the mall, Jean finds this button in the Snoopy section. From the moment she saw it, she fell in love with it. Her sister, Susan, told her to buy it, but when Jean saw the lines to checkout she went to go put the button back. Without even thinking about what she was doing, she put the button in her pocket. She thought that nobody watched her do it until a man walked up and asked her to empty her pockets. She instantly thought her sister could get her out of this mess, but before she knew it she
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