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Kisses and Contrasts Under Strip-Lined Trees
A young narrator and Mabel debate aging and propriety on a December day. The widow Mrs Kennedy and the narrator clash over romance with age, then reconcile after a kiss. Tension about propriety and consent punctuates their flirtation as they walk, talk, and finally kiss on the coping near a stone culvert.
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Femal
Mabel
Mrs. Kennedy
Mariel
Aluce
Tose
M. Armstrong Hickson