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We don't choose whom we love,_ he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. __ut people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.
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We don't choose whom we love,_ he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. __ut people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.

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