She’s weird he says of her.

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You can’t argue with that. Theo takes the train to Paris just for a haircut. Has a tattoo of a gardenia below her public line. Can’t poach an egg. Never watches televisions. Gets her favourite flowers delivered to herself every Monday to Friday: iceberg roses, November lilies, exquisite gardenia knots. Is married to a man called Tomas, twenty-four years her senior, whom she’s rarely made love to. She has a condition.------The Bride Stripped Bare