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J'attends quelques lignes du dieu de la sculpture dont j'adore le talent et l'embrasse de mon plus long baiser... Bien à vous corps et âme. (I await a few lines from the god of sculpture, whose talent I adore, and kiss him with my longest kiss... Yours body and
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