From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can__ be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before__n Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested.
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He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can__ be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before__n Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested.
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