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Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too.

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“Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too.”

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Johnsy links her own survival to the dwindling ivy leaves while ill and despairing, revealing how completely hopelessness has narrowed her attention.

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“The Last Leaf,” in The Trimmed Lamp, Project Gutenberg #3707. Johnsy speaks while seriously ill; the story rejects her fatalistic belief and later centers care, sacrifice and renewed desire to live. This is fiction, not health advice.

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