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I was braver now than last year,
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and there deciding what to do with my little concubine
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who was now 60 inches tall
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and weighed 90 pounds."
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The threat against Lolita is growing with her body;
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as she gets bigger, so he becomes murderous towards her.
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And this is allied with his desire, in a sense, to crystalize what he has taken from her.
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And here in the middle of the page a little ways down:
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My love's striped black-and-white cotton frock,
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jaunty blue cap, white socks and brown moccasins
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were not quite in keeping with the large, beautifully cut aquamarine
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on a silver chainlet which gemmed her throat,