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With your partner try to guess the meaning of the underlined phrase.

And somehow we fell out.

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Started fighting

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Chapter 3.2: The Quarrel - Working with the Poem [Page 40]

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Chapter 3.2 The Quarrel
Working with the Poem | Q 1.1 | Page 40

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