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Sometimes I standlooking at my wife
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without her knowing I'm here.
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The first time sheentered that room she said,
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"Oh, how nice.I feel at home here. "
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We hadn't knowneach other long.
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We met at a bishops'conference In Trondheim.
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She was there as a journalist.
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I told her aboutthe parsonage out here.
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I ventured to suggest a visit
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when the conference was over.
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On the way, I askedher to marry me.
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She didn't answer, but whenwe entered the room she said,
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"Oh, how nice.I feel at home here. "
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Since then we've lived a quiet,happy Iife at the parsonage.
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Eva has, of course, told meabout her earlier life.
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After leaving schoolshe went on to college
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got engaged to a doctor andlived with him for several years.
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Wrote two small books.
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Came down with tuberculosis,broke offthe engagement
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and moved from Oslo to a smalltown In the south of Norway
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where she beganto work as a journalist.
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This is the first of her books.I like it so much.
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She has written,
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"One must learn to live.I practice every day.
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" My biggest obstacle isI don't know who I am.
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