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- ID
- b188
- Title
- "Love Me Little, Love Me Long."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 10
- Word Count
- 2300
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Publication Year
- 1950
- Document Types
- Character: Richardson
- Topics
- Marriage
A diffident man named Richardson (a name Bates used for similar characters in a number of works) visits an old flame who is now married with children. Her insistence that "we never lack for anything here. We have everything we want" is belied by her eagerness to enter into an affair.
In Argosy (May 1950), The Wild Cherry Tree (1968).
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