The Third Martini

September, 1960

All through the day curran's mind kept drifting from his work and he felt inside himself the feeling he had for-gotten for so long, the feeling he associated, when he thought of it, with youth, with being a young man, desper-ately and foolishly in love, and quite inexperienced, and love is a field in which the amateur is of no use whatsoever. How desperately and foolishly he had been in love with Anne.She had been the magical and beautiful girl for him as a girl can be only when you are young an...

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