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   {
    "text": "A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.",
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   {
    "text": "A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.",
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   {
    "text": "For years I was his mistress⁠—no one knew.",
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   {
    "text": "I learned from him the parasite cunning",
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   {
    "text": "With which I moved with the bluffs, like a flea on a dog.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the time I was nothing but “very private,” with different men.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then Daniel, the radical, had me for years.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His sister called me his mistress;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Daniel wrote me: “Shameful word, soiling our beautiful love!”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But my anger coiled, preparing its fangs.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My Lesbian friend next took a hand.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She hated Daniel’s sister.",
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   {
    "text": "And Daniel despised her midget husband.",
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   {
    "text": "And she saw a chance for a poisonous thrust:",
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   {
    "text": "I must complain to the wife of Daniel’s pursuit!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But before I did that I begged him to fly to London with me.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Why not stay in the city just as we have?” he asked.",
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   {
    "text": "Then I turned submarine and revenged his repulse",
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   {
    "text": "In the arms of my dilettante friend. Then up to the surface,",
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   {
    "text": "Bearing the letter that Daniel wrote me,",
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   {
    "text": "To prove my honor was all intact, showing it to his wife,",
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    "text": "My Lesbian friend and everyone.",
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   {
    "text": "If Daniel had only shot me dead!",
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   {
    "text": "Instead of stripping me naked of lies,",
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    "text": "A harlot in body and soul!",
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