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The first thing the narrator tells us is that he doesn't expect us to believe the story he's about to write, or ask us to believe it. He says he'd have to be crazy to think we'll believe him he can hardly believe it himself. Then he says he isn't crazy and isn't dreaming. He is going to die the very next day, and has confess everything to set his story straight. His purpose in writing the story is to give the world a the plain facts of a series of mere household event read stuff that happened around the house. The consequences of the things that have happened around this mans house have caused him intense fear, extreme discomfort, and have actually destroyed him. But, he isn't going to go into the details of that. Rather, he is going to present

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