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OK, homestretch.

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Third from last.

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This is up on the mountain the
last time I looked in Greece.

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No, next to last.

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The terrace of the villa
the King's telegrapher

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built on the mountain
looks down on a blue sea

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and the small white
ferry that crosses slowly

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to the next island each noon.

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Michiko is dying in
the room behind him

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with the long windows open so
he will hear the faint sound she

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makes when she wants
watermelon to suck,

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or so he can take her to
the bucket in the corner

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of the high ceilinged room
which is the best they

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have for a chamber pot.

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She will lean against his
leg as she sits so as not

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to fall over in her weakness.

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How strange and fine
to get so near to it.

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The arches of her
naked feet like

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voices of children calling
in the distance, his heart as

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helpless as crushed birds.

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