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"Having had a few angry exchanges with Fran recently, I began to think about this phenomenon."

"I grew up in a small apartment that had a real French watercolor painting on the wall, along with two small Dutch oil paintings, a marble bust, a China closet filled with cut glass, and expensive mahogony furniture." (Fragment)

"Remember all those ads for toothpaste, mouthwashes, lozenges, mints, sprays and gum, designed to scare people about bad breath?"

"Dear Fran, I wrote this last year as a way of 'getting it out of my system'."

"I am a sucker for birthdays and anniversaries."

"I don’t like T-shirts with lots of stuff printed on them."

"I have been troubled by Fran’s sleep pattern, and think that it is a result of some distortion of her circadian rhythm, which I believe is an internal clock that tells us when to go to sleep and when to wake up."

"As one gets older, life becomes harder, especially if you have had cancer."

"Today is December 22, 2015."

"I recently wrote a piece which I called 'Fear of Heights.'" (Fragment)