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 she's gone, nothing can ever change that.'

"But I am not happy.

"Oh, my one friend—what is the matter with me? What is this feeling? Why am I not happy?

"But how can you know?

"You are beautiful.

"I am a small, vile creature.

"Always I awake to this fact when I think of the anemone lady.

"I am not good.

"But you are kind to me—you are kind to me—you are kind to me.

"You have written me two letters.

"The anemone lady came down from her high places and wrote me two letters.

"It is said that God is somewhere. It may be so.

"But God has never come down from his high places to write me two letters.

"Dear—do you see?—you are the only one in the world.

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