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A. For example, “This spring I looked out and I saw something strange. Down in the lot, a little black-haired girl, hiding behind that refrigerator.”
B. Ana watched the little girl bury something in the lot. In the text it said, “And after twenty years typing for the Parole department, I just about knew what she’d buried. Drugs most likely, or money, or a gun.”
C. In the text it said, “My curiosity was like a fever inside me. Then one morning, she was there, glancing about, and she looked straight up at this window.”
D. Ana went to the lot to find out what the girl had buried. The author wrote, “Then the truth of it slapped me full in the face. I said to myself, ‘What have you done?’ Two beans had roots. I knew I’d done them harm.”
E. For example, “I felt like I’d read through her secret diary and had ripped out a page without meaning to.”
What pieces of evidence ranked B, D, A, C, E?