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- Can we read now?
- Just a minute.
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May I?
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Today I'll read a story of water.
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I borrowed it from a friend.
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"We were returning from Hydra...".
A Greek island.
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"...from a major meeting
of Mediterranean sociologists..."
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Sorry...
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May I?
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I just wanted to check.
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Perfect... I'll leave you.
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"We had decided, Norma, Michel and I,
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to prolong our visit by a private stay
on another island,
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much smaller and wilder,
whose name I shall withhold."
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"Michel is my friend, Norma his wife."
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"She laughs,
she has amber skin, hazel eyes."
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"She's 30 and the heroine
of this strange story."
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"It was May, when it is
already very hot in the Cyclades."
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"We'd been told that the island
offered shade, coolness,
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and all sorts of advantages.
Above all, there was water."
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"It was invaluable."
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"In particular,
there was an precious spring
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which gushed from a rocky crevice
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between tamarisks
and a gnarled olive tree."
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"Norma saw it first.
I still see her, moving barefoot
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towards the sunshot fountain,
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kneeling to catch the sparkling
water in the palm of her hands."
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"Her shirt, tied in a large knot
above her waist showed..."
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Go on...
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"...showed, as she bent over,
a broad strip of golden skin."