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Page 9
Followed by a tiresome fitting session in the afternoon: she has a dressmaker
come to the apartment to cut out garments custom-tailored for a slimming
silhouette, to hide my figure. Not one word, ever, about my extra pounds. From
one fitting to ...
Followed by a tiresome fitting session in the afternoon: she has a dressmaker
come to the apartment to cut out garments custom-tailored for a slimming
silhouette, to hide my figure. Not one word, ever, about my extra pounds. From
one fitting to ...
Page 10
And the fitting session was canceled because of anticipated weight loss. After I
left, I rushed to a pastry shop and ravenously devoured an enormous pudding
chock-full of raisins. Z Paris in the rain. Gleaming wet sidewalks. Water pouring
IO ...
And the fitting session was canceled because of anticipated weight loss. After I
left, I rushed to a pastry shop and ravenously devoured an enormous pudding
chock-full of raisins. Z Paris in the rain. Gleaming wet sidewalks. Water pouring
IO ...
Page 26
No more clandestine fitting sessions in her room to make a more presentable
monster of me. No more maternal duties. She'll return to the almost cinematic
splendor of gala evenings at the embassy. She'll flutter around like a monarch
butterfly, ...
No more clandestine fitting sessions in her room to make a more presentable
monster of me. No more maternal duties. She'll return to the almost cinematic
splendor of gala evenings at the embassy. She'll flutter around like a monarch
butterfly, ...
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