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    "text": "When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me",
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   {
    "text": "I went to Springfield. There I met a lush,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose father just deceased left him a fortune.",
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   {
    "text": "He married me when drunk. My life was wretched.",
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   {
    "text": "A year passed and one day they found him dead.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That made me rich. I moved on to Chicago.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After a time met Tyler Rountree, villain.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I moved on to New York. A gray-haired magnate",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Went mad about me⁠—so another fortune.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He died one night right in my arms, you know.",
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   {
    "text": "(I saw his purple face for years thereafter.)",
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   {
    "text": "There was almost a scandal. I moved on,",
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    "text": "This time to Paris. I was now a woman,",
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    "text": "Insidious, subtle, versed in the world and rich.",
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   {
    "text": "My sweet apartment near the Champs Élysées",
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   {
    "text": "Became a center for all sorts of people,",
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   {
    "text": "Musicians, poets, dandies, artists, nobles,",
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    "text": "Where we spoke French and German, Italian, English.",
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    "text": "I wed Count Navigato, native of Genoa.",
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    "text": "We went to Rome. He poisoned me, I think.",
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    "text": "Now in the Campo Santo overlooking",
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    "text": "The sea where young Columbus dreamed new worlds,",
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   {
    "text": "See what they chiseled: “Contessa Navigato",
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   {
    "text": "Implora eterna quiete.”",
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