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I like it a lot, too.
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- When do you leave?
- Monday, after the fair.
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Don't take it badly,
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but when my fiancée
left 10 years ago
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I felt the same twinge in my heart.
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Your fiancée?
:38:23
It was because of her
that I left Paris.
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I moved here last month
to relive my memories.
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Does she live in Rochefort?
:38:33
No, in Mexico.
:38:36
But we met here.
:38:38
It's a strange story
for an ordinary man like me.
:38:44
My fiancee found my name
a bad joke.
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I think it even shocked her
and one day I awoke
:38:53
To find she'd left me
without a word, without a sign.
:38:57
I haven't laid eyes on her
in 10 years' time.
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She had told me
one night so tenderly
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That we were soon to be
no longer two but three.
:39:10
It fills a man with pride,
it's woman's greatest claim,
:39:15
But she couldn't stand
being called Madame Dame.
:39:22
Yet she cared for me
and I called her my muse.
:39:26
But I had no idea
(how poets will ruse)
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That a name like mine
could shame and irritate.
:39:35
I didn't understand
until it was too late.
:39:39
I was a handsome fellow
and she a sweet young thing.
:39:44
She hadn't planned it
but had already mothered twins.
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I never met the girls
who were always out of sight.
:39:53
They went to boarding school
and never came home at night.
:39:59
A few years later
I met a mutual friend