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Courtship

           Why?  Why?  No  explanation.  To  be  disappointed  in  love  is  not
        new in courtship, among birds and mammals as well as humans, and
        I, so shy and silly, fell victim to it. I was dejected and mystified. I had
        never been impolite or, as they say, fresh. Had we quarreled for any
        reason whatsoever, then we would have parted either as enemies or
        friends, but here was no accusation or blame for any wrongdoing. It
        gave me more sorrow than those usual quarrels in the love stories.
        One day, when I happened to find her alone in the house, I went
        down on one knee and implored her to tell me why she hurt me so
        much.  And while my  throat was choking, and I was confused  and
        ashamed of myself, she told me to forget everything. I suffered for
        months, and read Werther’s Sorrows by Goethe.











































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