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1  Then she hit me on the leg with her fist.
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2  She crossed her legs and started jiggling this one foot up and down.
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3  Old guys' legs, at beaches and places, always look so white and unhairy.
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4  You cross your legs and hold your breath and think of something very, very hot.
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5  I mean if you hold her in close as hell so that it doesn't matter that your legs are so much longer.
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6  She was sitting smack in the middle of the bed, outside the covers, with her legs folded like one of those Yogi guys.
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7  Her mother knew my mother, and I could picture her breaking a goddam leg to get to the phone and tell my mother I was in New York.
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8  It wasn't too far, but it was cold as hell, and the snow made it hard for walking, and my Gladstones kept banging hell out of my legs.
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9  Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them.
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10  You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket.
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