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Read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close. in bed that night i invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in new york, and would connect to the reservoir. whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same and when something really terrible happened—like a nuclear bomb, or at least a biological weapons attack—an extremely loud siren would go off, telling everyone to get to central park to put sandbags around the reservoir. what assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt? that his creativity will be eagerly embraced that a biological weapons attack is imminent that many people express their grief through tears that volunteers are always willing to in a crisis

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