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Sally Ashton

He will make intimate suggestions—

why I am the only one to hear the donkey.
Am I the only one to hear the donkey? Why?
The donkey! Why, am I the only one to hear?
Hear the donkey. Why? Am I the only one?
Why, I am the only one to hear the donkey!
Why am I the only one to hear the donkey?
Why the donkey, the only one I hear.
The donkey hears why I am the only one.
The only one to hear: why I am the donkey.
I hear only donkey, to am the why the one.


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