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more I wish you hadn't died."<br />

By talking over her concerns with her husband, by<br />

reading him her cutouts from the world of the arts and<br />

sharing the news of her life, Tracy had become very<br />

good friends with Vincent in the years since his death.<br />

Actually, even before that they had gotten along nicely.<br />

Having met at the Met (as they afterwards joked), the<br />

couple had married over the protests of no one. Being<br />

both well named, well taught, wealthy, and healthy, they<br />

were declared to be well matched.<br />

Personally, Vincent had been slightly more…<br />

physical than she, but the passion that had not passed<br />

him by while he was away in the City all week making<br />

his investments was with time safely in the past, where it<br />

could not leap out at Tracy, who frankly confessed<br />

finally that she "would rather not." Their basic<br />

compatibility had been solidified by Canopy's demise<br />

and was now as solidly welded as his tomb.<br />

"Vincent, you'll never guess. Beanie's gone, oh, my,<br />

well, I don't know what to call it. Who could have<br />

known? She eloped with a poet last night," Mrs.<br />

Canopy explained as she always had, for her husband

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