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ravel

verb as in come apart; unwind

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“Hence, ravel; a tool that does the fiddly nesting together of details and summary tags for you.”

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So somehow, Grace, Sacha and Robert end up accompanying Art and Charlotte to Norfolk, and all of their stories unravel and ravel at once.

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Her hair was black yarn that had been knit and raveled, so that it was curly.

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But now, even though the cold already bit in the mornings, she wore only her one earth-colored dress with the raveled hem.

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And I’d like there to be, within those three attempts, a story that ravels and unravels and is a piece of Nadia’s heart, something vital to her.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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