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"Hills"module/ page 6
| [Story deleted at the publisher's request.
Simon and Schuster 9/6/04] ================ Paragraphs 89-100 89 = back at the table 98 = his looking at the labels on the luggage against the wall of the train station, perhaps like those below |
89 She's
feeling pressured. Body language: she wants to get off this subject; he needs a further
concession from her if they are to last as a couple.
90-92 If they "go through with it" instead of having the operation, there will be someone else in their relationship. To keep it just the two of them, she has to have the operation--it's an abortion. But they're in Spain, a Catholic country, probably in the 1920s or early 1930s (no mention of war). Where would she get an abortion?96 Is this true? That is, does the American love Jig and want to stay with her? He's not picking a fight, it seems, as if he were trying to make an excuse to break up with her. 98 His perspective on their relationship--he wants more hotels and more nights. 99 Now he's trying to be self-sacrificing; why? |
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