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More Of It

One night I learned to say

"more of it" with a sibilant 's' that

followed, taught by two European women

and their sultry ways. We were

sitting in a commonplace bar with

all those young, city men around

us and, my god, I wanted to be stiff and

striking too. But when I

said it aloud my words were

tinged with a useless preciousness and

an all-American physique, and it

wasn't until they taught me to

say "less of it now" in a sharp, tactful

fashion did I learn that this was

all a large portion of

finding my own way.

 
 
 

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