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Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.

Which quotation from the story "Hamadi" by Naomi Shahib Nye best supports the theme that humans carry on when things don't go as planned?

"Somehow he felt like a good substitute for a grandmother, even though he was a man."

"Maybe he thought about all the refugees in camps in Palestine far from doorbells and shutters."

"Those brittle women at school in the counselor’s office treated the world as if it were a yardstick and they had tight hold of both ends."

"He had come to the United States on a boat when he was eighteen years old and he had never been married."