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I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.  \nThe last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf. We rarely moved things; the Blackwoods were never much of a family for restlessness and stirring. We dealt with the small surface transient objects, the books and the flowers and the spoons, but underneath we had always a solid foundation of stable possessions. We always put things back where they belonged. We dusted and swept under tables and chairs and beds and pictures and rugs and lamps, but we left them where they were; the tortoise-shell toilet set on our mother's dressing table was never off place by so much as a fraction of an inch. Blackwoods had always lived in our house, and kept their things in order; as soon as a new Blackwood wife moved in, a place was found for her belongings, and so our house was built up with layers of Blackwood property weighting it, and keeping it steady against the world.  \nIt was on a Friday in late April that I brought the library books into our house. Fridays and Tuesdays were terrible days, because I had to go into the village. Someone had to go to the library, and the grocery; Constance never went past her own garden, and Uncle Julian could not. Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food. It may have been pride that brought me into Stella's for a cup of coffee before I started home; I told myself it was pride and would not avoid going into Stella's no matter how much I wanted to be at home, but I knew, too, that Stella would see me pass ifI did not go in, and perhaps think I was afraid, and that thought I could not endure.  \n\"Good morning, Mary Katherine,\" Stella always said, reaching over to wipe the counter with a damp rag, \"how are you today?\"  \n\"Very well, thank you.\"  \n\"And Constance Blackwood, is she well?\"  \n\"Very well, thank you.\"  \n\"And how is he?\"  \n\"As well as can be expected. Black coffee, please.\"  \nIf anyone else came in and sat down at the counter I would leave my coffee without seeming hurried, and leave, nodding goodbye to Stella. \"Keep well,\" she always said automatically as I went out.  \nI chose the library books with care. There were books in our house, of course; our father's study had books covering two walls, but I liked fairy tales and books of history, and Constance liked books about food. Although Uncle Julian never took up a book, he liked to see Constance reading in the evenings while he worked at his papers, and sometimes he turned his head to look at her and nod.  \n\"What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.\"  \n\"I'm reading something called _The Art of Cooking_, Uncle Julian.\"  \n\"Admirable.\"  \nWe never sat quietly for long, of course, with Uncle Julian in the room, but I do not recall that Constance and I have ever opened the library books which are still on our kitchen shelf. It was a fine April morning when I came out  \nof the library; the sun was shining and the false glorious promises of spring were everywhere, showing oddly through the village grime. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing","cbCaic0GcnBJsIyt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic0GcnBJsIyt","pdf",242691,61,"English","# We Have Always Lived in the Castle\n## Mary Katherine’s daily life and the Blackwood household\n## Library books, errands, and small-town interactions\n## The Rochester house and the burden of family history\n## The outside world beyond the village","[{\"question\":\"Who narrates the story and how old is she?\",\"answer\":\"Mary Katherine Blackwood narrates. 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