The passage can be best described as:

The passage most strongly suggests that the items that the narrator kept in her box over the years:

According to the passage, the teenage girl who lived in the up-country town had all of the following physical characteristics EXCEPT:

Based on the passage, when the narrator arrived in the up-country town, the single men treated the narrator:

According to the passage, the narrator initially believed that the teenage girl who lived in the up-country town:

The “someone” referred to in line 53 is most likely

The primary rhetorical effect of the ninth paragraph (lines 55-62) is to:

When the teenage girl says “it sets off flowers so,” she is referring to the contrast between:

The author of the passage likely put the sentence “I never saw her again” (line 84) in its own paragraph in order to:

0. The final phrase of the passage (“ the rose is in my box still!”) indicates that the narrator: