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BUTTERFLY MAN
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"It's funny he never told me he was going," Ken said, turning away. His heart contracted suddenly. The theatre became dead stone and mortar, the busy crosstown street a deserted cowpath, the girl at his side a lifeless doll.

"What could I have done?" he asked. "Oh, Norah, what could I have done?"