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Meaning
The speaker is questioning herself and assuming the fault must be her own. She feels that if many other people seem different, then the explanation must be something wrong in her rather than in everyone else. The quote reflects self-doubt and a painful search for a reason.
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Originally said in English.
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About Harper Lee
American novelist
Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She also helped her close friend Truman Capote with research for In Cold Blood. An earlier draft of Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015 as a sequel, and a later collection of her short stories and essays, The Land of Sweet Forever, was published after her death.
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Books by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
1969
Go Set A Watchman
2016