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Fifth business/Haunted by unlived lives

Human beings are complicated and individual and the thought of that we all could have ended up anywhere else, doing and being something totally different from what we are now always haunts us. Every man or woman, at some point in his or her life, is confronted by these questions: what if I…, what if he…, what if we. Dunny Ramsay is a character from the book Fifth Business to imagine how different his life might have been if he would have taken another path in the past.
He started to live his life with an on-going relationship: guilt. He believed that if he was able to change that one moment when” the snowball had been meant for me” which was thrown by Percy Staunton “but Mrs.Dempster was the one who got hit by it “(pg.11) then the follow-up such as a pre-mature birth delivery would have not came across his life. He “sweated that God would forgive me for my mountainous crime” because he was “...

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