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id="_idTextSpan4007" >based her choice on the cast, he on the directors). As for the holidays, the otherwise stressful dilemma of mountain versus sea holidays had never caused a division between them, while the customary dispute of their exact destination was for the two of them a piece of cake. And when it came to sex, it was as satisfying as it could be after two years of living together, he concluded with a certain fatality. He would miss Lila, there was no denying that. How much? Only time could tell.

OK, but did they love each other? Both Babis and the self asked synchronously.

If there was something to that question that had al-ways made them both nervous (Babis and self) it was the pure mule-like stubbornness of the person posing the question, refusing to accept any answer other than

- Tennis in the middle of economic crisis? Are you mad? Change it to ping pong, forthwith.

- What crisis? We’re talking turn of the century, the good ol’ days.

- Sexist comment.

- Sexist or not, it’s a fact.

- Really? Did someone do a census and never tell me about it?

- As if you’ve looked it up.

- No, but just going on what I’ve heard here and there.

Simos Panopoulos - Look at that

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a yes or no. Deep down they’d rather it was never even posed, because nothing good ever came of it (it could ruin a relationship far more effectively than any se-ductress), only bad (it made everyone involved stress over whether they met the prerequisite requirements). He relied on the naïve point of view that humanity needed, after four million years of uninterrupted pres-ence on the planet, billions of romantic relationships since then, ten of which give or take in Babis’s life, to fall in love in the same exact way, regardless of time and place. Regardless, also, of any scientific discov-ery. Like the one, for example, about the heart being nothing but a pump circulating blood after all.

Anyway, did they love each other, yes or no, they asked again. Not in the strict sense of the word, I guess, they jointly admitted. The way that she was abandoning him, the way that he had allowed himself to be aban-doned, the way he had abandoned every effort to stop her from abandoning him, well, whichever way you look at it, these were, if perhaps not conclusive indica-tors, sufficiently nevertheless prima facie. Now, in the broad one…

Even so, he had no intention of shedding crocodile tears because she was leaving. That’s why, when Lila, after bidding him farewell, truth be told without any

Is it really that much? Are

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