What is the title of the final, longest story in 'Dubliners' that deals with themes of mortality and lost love?
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Correct answer: The Dead
'The Dead' serves as the novella-length coda to the collection. It centers on Gabriel Conroy’s realization of his own insignificance and the interconnectedness of the living and the dead.
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