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unentangled.<br />

Of course, Madame Curie had had Pierre. It would<br />

eventually be nice to fall in love. Life, Polly decided,<br />

would give her a Pierre, a friend and colleague who<br />

would save the world with her; and she would<br />

incidentally have a few children (she'd always wanted<br />

brothers and sisters). Then when they brought her word<br />

that a bus, or something, had run over and killed her<br />

Pierre on his way to the lecture hall, she would remain<br />

beautifully calm, gather up his notes (or better, know<br />

them by heart), and so go to give that lecture on<br />

science, or something, in his place. Tears twinkled<br />

happily in her eyes as she heard the standing ovation<br />

burst forth for so brave and brilliant a young woman,<br />

who would now go on alone (her parenthetical children<br />

having dropped from the dream) to win the Nobel<br />

Prize, or something.<br />

These thoughts made her feel immensely better<br />

about It. It would be different with her and Pierre.<br />

Much more noble. She brought back the sight on the<br />

library floor and looked it over. She had today learned<br />

something she wanted abstractly to know. She had seen

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