Why does the author of “about a girl” begin the article with the statement “blessed as i am with an ordinary memory”?

a.) she wants to show readers she is an ordinary person to them relate to her writing.

b.)she believes readers take their memories for granted and wants them to learn how to appreciate memories instead.

c.) she wants readers to be for what they have.

d.)she feels that she is able to remember absolutely everything.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia