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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: like fusing the component parts of a seidlitz powder, unite two
people in a bubbling and ephemeral ecstasy. But surely there is
possible, with but a single meeting, an attraction so great, a
community of mind and interest so strong, that between that first
meeting and the next the bond may grow into something stronger.
This is especially true, I fancy, of people with temperament, the
modern substitute for imagination. It is a nice question whether
lovers begin to love when they are together, or when they are apart.
Not that I followed any such line of reasoning at the time. I would
not even admit my folly to myself. But during the restless hours of
that first night after the accident, when my back ached with lying
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