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Whether Magda was his wife or not,
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one evening when he was wise-lined
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and gray at the temples he'd smile gravely,
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at a fashionable dinner party,
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and remind her of his youthful passion.
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The time they went with his family to Ocean City;
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the erotic fantasies he used to have about her.
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How long ago it seemed and childish!
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Yet tender too, n'est-ce pas? [That's a Humbert moment.
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That's Humbert.] Would she have imagined that the world famous
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whatever remembered how many strings were on the lyre on the bench beside
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the girl on the label of the cigar box he'd stated at in the tool shed