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There were window boxes filled with bright pink flowers and drips of dark green ivy. Over one of the window boxes a Monarch butterfly hovered. Two Monarch butterflies. He thought of a photograph he had once seen of Vladimir Nabokov running with his butterfly net. He thought of Lolita. What a second-rate Lolita Cheryl Lanier had been -- not particularly pretty, but most of all, distinct from Lolita in that she had not been genuinely needy; she was just another person who wanted things."
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