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"I could feel the drug working in ination? I was so hot, so ed nor conscious

" 'Don't try to get up,' said the woman with the comb But I did try and I pushed her away from me

"She fell back,'I hope she tortures you!' she said

"I was flat onto the balustrade I should have dropped down, no matter hoas I had been a fool not to try it My eyes closed I could hear their voices, their cheap, cruel laughter I hated them

" 'Listen to o over it myself You can tell her that I jumped I'll probably die, and you'll be happy and free of me, just likejust like' I couldn't make my mouth forht I had said

"I ooning I could no longer see

"The bed was ht it was my disorientation, but then I heard the squeak of the wheels A coolness ca ripped from me, and then, down into a pool of ater, my body was slipped

"Thank God for it, I thought The sweat and the heat were gone So women anymore

" 'Listen to ht close to my ear

"I tried to openpainted with oddesses: Bacchus in his chariot and satyrs around hireen ivy, and the maenads with their hair ripped and their clothes in tatters following behind Brand-new Too bright

"Then I saw the boy as bathingItalian beauties with a halo of black curls for hair, and a gorgeous naked chest and muscular arms

" 'I' to you,' he said with a thick accent 'Can you understand me?¡¯

" 'The water feels good,' I tried to say, but I'ed the words

" 'Can you understand ain