The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.

Janet Flanner
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  4. She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

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