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a delightful dancer, though with something fragile and gauche about her that kept her teetering on a narrow ledge between benevolent recognition and the rave reviews of nonentities. Her first lovers belonged mostly to the Union of Property Movers, simple fellows of Polish extraction; but Flora was probably Adam's daughter. Three years after her birth Adam discovered that the boy he loved had strangled another, unattainable, boy

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一个可爱的舞者，尽管感情有些脆弱，处事也不够老练，这令她在架于善意的认可与小人物的热捧之间的狭窄平台上摇摇欲坠。她的第一批情人大多属于“财产搬运工联盟”，都是淳朴的波兰裔小伙；但弗洛拉有可能是亚当的女儿。弗洛拉出生三年后，亚当才发现自己爱恋的小伙子掐死了另一个他没有得到、