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Charles Dickens · Great Expectations, Opening

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My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip,
my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone
and my sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.

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