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ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN
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read your column, and I saw Jessie's letter and your answer. What you said made me think that perhaps you might be willing to forgive me."

Ann, once more safely enthroned on the shining glory of her happiness, felt that she could afford to tease him just a little.

"Ah," she said, "so you admit that some of those letters people write me are genuine, and that the answers do some good?"

He smiled at her and laid his hand over the ring, which outglittered even the most newly nickeled of Piazza's cutlery.

"Yes, honey," he said. "I admit it. And I knew that Jessie's letter was genuine, because I wrote it myself."

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