Paulina In John Steinbeck's When His PHD

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In a dark laurel bower in a garden with two stone lions. "
"I realized that my happiness had begun, because those preferences could relate to Paulina. We came across so miraculously in a book about the final meeting of souls in the soul of the world. "
"When his PHD"
He liked that he received friends.
If souls are united.
"It was remarkable because it revealed a vague purpose of imitating positively different writers."
In London for two years.
"After a while of projects, we admit that I would have to give up the scholarship. It was a week for my exams, but it was clear that the parents of Paulina wanted to postpone our marriage. "For the wedding ell

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