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Oh, you'll have to write more
like this one.
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- You'll either get rich or arrested.
- Eat your French dip pastrami.
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You know, sometimes l think there's
more good in a dame like that--
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Open, no beating around the bush--
Than a dozen blushing debutantes
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whose fathers see that they
wind up with the highest bidder.
1:11:19
The next day saw the start of one
of those cross-country bicycle races
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the Europeans love.
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l made another date with Mimi and we
covered it together from the press car,
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right through the heart
of the city of Paris.
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lt was a beautiful day for a race,
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but l didn't spend much time
admiring the scenery or the racers.
1:11:36
My charming companion
was telling me the story of her life.
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lt made Cleopatra
sound like Mother Machree.
1:11:43
As we rounded the turn
into the Bois de Boulogne,
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Mimi was telling me about
an adventure she had once
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with a foreign millionaire.
On a bicycle.
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lt seems she'd had adventures on
almost everything except a pogo stick.
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Her sense of balance, apparently,
was phenomenal.
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As l listened, l could see
my next column writing itself.
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Help! Help! Help!