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I picked it outof a baby-name book. When an imaginative person gets intomental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way ofdisappearing. ) I tried some one-on-onecounselling and gave it up after five appointments, deciding that thecounsellor's problems were far worse than mine. After that I would swim and take a long dreamlessnap in the north bedroom.

I thought of her in the white dress, the swell of her hips justbelow my hands and the smell of her perfume, then pushed the imagesaway. All rights reserved. I thought ofher painting her toenails, bent over between her own thighs in the wayonly women doing that particular piece of business can manage. When they got to the theater Eleanor hurried down to the ladies' room to see if her eyes had got red.