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She was like a child in so many ways, so delicate and afraid, but the very thought of her roused hitherto unexplored parts of my physical being as well as my romantic heart… It was as if my grandmother had presented to me the means of my own ruin—and, worse, had told me I could have it. In such ways I thought of the exotic girl: a being to be taken and yet one which possessed so much power.