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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10lmj7i$3ecue$2@dont-email.me>, did   
   noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >   
   > On 1/02/26 05:31, Don wrote:   
   > > The True Melissa wrote:   
   > >> Verily, in article <10lk4a9$2le82$3@dont-email.me>, did   
   > >> noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:   
   > >>>> Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance   
   > >>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.   
   > >>   
   > >> Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love   
   > >> story, it's nice IMO.   
   > >   
   > > Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to   
   > > twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old   
   > > Clare.   
   >   
   > It is a long time since I read it but wasn't that aspect there?   
      
   It's also been a long time since I read it, but in my memory, he is   
   careful to treat her like the child she is during that scene.   
      
      
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