what it’s all about
“She repeated to herself, “I have a lover! I have a lover!” and the thought gave her a delicious thrill, as though she were beginning a second puberty. At last she was going to possess the joys of love, that fever of happiness she had despaired of ever knowing. She was entering a marvelous realm in which everything would be passion, ecstasy and rapture⦔ |
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- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“She repeated to herself, “I have a lover! I have