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Which part of this excerpt from john updike's "the brown chest" shows that the main character finally appreciated the value of his family history? "and this? " she went on, leaving the bed hanging in a realm of future possibility. her headscarf had slipped back, exposing auburn hair glinting above the vapor of her breath, in evanescent present time. she had paused at the chest. her glance darted at gordon, and then, receiving no response, at the present owner, looking him in the eyes for the first time. the ogre smiled. "open it." "what's in it? " she asked. he said, "i forget, actually." delicately but fearlessly, she lifted the lid, and out swooped, with the same vividness that had astonished and alarmed his nostrils as a child, the sweetish deep cedary smell, undiminished, cedar and camphor and paper and cloth, the smell of family, family without end.

1) her headscarf had slipped back, exposing auburn hair glinting above the vapor of her breath
2) her glance darted at gordon, and then, receiving no response, at the present owner, looking him in the eyes for the first time.
3) fearlessly, she lifted the lid,
4) the sweetish deep cedary smell, undiminished, cedar and camphor and paper and cloth, the smell of family, family without end.

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