Paul asks how I would have handled a love letter from a student. I don't know - by talking, maybe, by listening. I don't know. How sad that we don't hear each other - any of us. Major issues are submerged by minor ones; catastrophes by absurdities.
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Being a female, she spurns him on.
Permalink to quote #20 'Why did you fail me? I didn't do nothing!' The reply, of course, is: 'That's just it.'
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