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Mary Louise and Elmer's Wedding
The extraordinary about this story is the way that he can move from that tender, to gain romantic lyricism. Also the fact that he seems to be a venturquist. He's completely inward with everybody. And of course they turn out to be absolutely right. But the other thing about it, and again we'll come back to that, is that he’s completely inward withEverybody. The three quarries would be deli-i-her at meal times. Dried up spinsters were always the worst. By midday on the 10th of September the pair were joined together. It doesn't auger very well.
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