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" 'I can't stay, Quinn, but I must talk to your Aunt Queen before I talk to you Let me have those moments with her now ¡¯

"I was devastated 'No,' I said, 'you have to tell s I told you, you think I' to be like this always, but I swear -- ¡¯

" 'No, Quinn, I don't think you're insane,' he said 'But understand I must leave Now let me speak with Miss Queen alone I pro you ¡¯

"I let theether, and then I went into the kitchen for lunch, where Jas Ramona that they were rich I hated to break up their happiness with er Besides, Jas Ramona They just never wanted to leave Blackwood Manor, everybody knew

"And since one thing I could always do was eat, I devoured a platter of Sunday chicken and dus

"Finally, I could resist the suspense no longer I went to the parlor door, and Aunt Queen beckoned for me

" 'Now darling, Nash is under the impression that you'll be disturbed in time by the fact that he hasn't so much chosen a bachelor's life as been rather predisposed to it ¡¯

" 'I have it all in a letter here, Quinn,' said Nash in his kindly but authoritative manner

" 'Are you telling ay?' I asked

"Aunt Queen was shocked

" 'Well, to be frank,' said Nash, 'that's exactly what I intended to tell you ¡¯

" 'I knew that last night,' I said 'Oh, don't worry that you gave it aith soesture or mannerism You didn't I just sensed it because I'm probably that way myself; at least, I'm bisexual, I have no doubt of that ¡¯

"I was greeted by a stunned silence frohter Of course I'd just ht have hurt her, but I was very sure Nash would not be hurt at all

" 'Oh my precocious one,' she said 'You never fail to char Doesn't that double one's chances for love? I'hted ¡¯

"Nash continued to stare atwhatsoever to say, and then I realized what had happened