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Even the narrow canals around the Rialto teemed with floating shops- a small barge piled with jumbled green grapes, a boat heaped with oranges and limes, and another listing under a mountain of melons. I jogged along, drunk on all the colors and smells of the known world: pyramids of blood oranges from Greece, slender green beans from Morocco, sun-ripened cherries from Provence, giant white cabbages from Germany, fat black dates from Constantinople, and shiny purple eggplants from Holland.
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― The Book of Unholy Mischief
― The Book of Unholy Mischief
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So you have no love for the demon god of love. Interesting. Yet you spend an inordinate amount of time with him and remain alive and well. Not many could say the same. Unless you two…?” He let the sentence hang with a sexually suggestive implication.
“What?” I recoiled. “Ew. No. I just told you I’m friends with his wife!”
“Not necessarily an obstacle.”
“Ugh!” I made a face. “Double ew.”
He grinned. “I forgot you are an American.”
“And I just realized you’re a Euro-creep-an. Thinking I’
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