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| | The Lady and The Tiger |
 | | Miss Stark was petting a Bengal tiger, there in a photo hanging in the "Paul Eagles Circus Club" section of the restaurant---a zone where legendary circus folk used to hold periodic reunions. |
 | | To our boy-brains, Miss Stark was the strangest creature we had ever seen---a petite, elderly, unsmiling lady with a kind of Harpo Marx hairdo and spangly circus outfit, who commanded her striped charges to leap, growl, prance, roll over, run in circles, punctuating each trick with a twirly show-bizzy flourish of her right hand. |
 | | It depicted was a young, beaming Stark standing behind a big, fluffy (and possibly smiling) tiger, her arms wrapped lovingly around the animal's neck. |
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