It was a stormy day and it was slap bang in the middle of the fair weather season.

In sober mornings, do not thou reherse The holy incantation of a verse ...

The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.

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