The following paragraph is a sample from another short story. Noticehow the past-tense

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The following paragraph is a sample from another short story. Noticehow the past-tense verbs create a certain distance between the reader andthe events. Revise the paragraph, writing it in the present tense to achieve adifferent effect.I threw another log on the fi re, waiting for Ahmer to come home. Dinner saton the table, growing cold. Ahmer had been gone for hours and I was surehe had left with hurt feelings. Why did we always argue this way on specialoccasions? It was as though we didnt really want to celebrate, or didntknow how.

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