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"Not the sex The note I sent Mom the next day"

"You sent his mother a note after you seduced her son? What did it say?"

"It said" Nora began, and paused for a breath Not one of her prouder ht And five fingers’"

"You’re s so hard to feel bad about it I swear to God I ains? They have no idea what they’re doing"

"I had such an a that experience to other people Better than five ht?"

"How altruistic of you"

"I’iver"

"Andhi? I didn’t know people still said that"

"It soundedyou a slut and whore who’ll spread for anyone who pays you the slightest bit of attention"

"Look, in my world slut is a ter this to people? You’re going to have to find a new nato insult you"

"Fine, then Here are the facts The vanilla oing to have to trustabout Søren loves me and he loves what I aes rudgeout for a nice meal with a friend Sex is sustenance to me He’d rather I eat than starve"

"You say that and yet you lived with your young fiancé for over a year withoutfeeding on him"

"I’m capable of soin because he hadn’t gotten around to getting laid yet He was a virgin because he wanted to wait for someone special He has a different philosophy of sex than I do I didn’t share it, but I respected it"

Marie-Laure sighed and shook her head

"Fascinating" she said again

"What is?"

"Your capacity for self-justification and rationalization"

"If it were an Olympic sport, I’d medal"

"No doubt I have to say after that speech about my husband’s love for you that I can’t quite understand why you’re so drawn to a young man hom you have so little in coreed to marry him"