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“Anyway, he went off to war, and I went off still playing and singing. ’Course by then I wasn’t as much as I used to be, not without somebody to make it worth the while. You know what I mean?”

“Yeah,” Greg nodded, not quite really knowing.

“I traveled around, and one time I come home, and there was this letter saying Jesse got killed in the war. Broke my heart, it truly did.

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Choose the paraphrased text that addresses the main points of the excerpt.

Lemon Brown tells Greg that his son died at war. His son carried Lemon’s mouth fiddle and news clippings with him. To Lemon, this means his treasure meant something to both of them.
Lemon Brown explains what happened in the war and how his heart was broken after his son died. When the news clippings and mouth fiddle were returned to him, he knew they were treasure.