"anymore" = "not previously but now"

[Wilson Gray]

My wife, a sixty-ish native of Northeast PA, is unable to discern what
makes this sentence worthy of note, unless it's, perhaps, the use of

"... directly anyway, but for ..."

Instead of

"... directly, anyway. But, for ..."

-Wilson


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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