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| | Try a Little Tenderness |
 | | Though she's clearly intelligent, and more than a little cagey, the child is absolutely silent on that matter and all others. |
 | | Without missing a beat, Kafka assured the little girl that the doll wasn't lost, only traveling; Kafka knew this for a fact, he said, because the doll had written him a letter describing her journeys, which he promised to bring the girl the next day. |
 | | Every day for three weeks, he brought the girl a new letter that he had spent much of the previous night composing, until she could no longer remember why she had been sad in the first place. |
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