“You are free now, O, said Anne-Marie. We can remove your rings, the collar, the cuffs, erase your mark. You have diamonds, you can go back home.” O did not cry, did not complain. She did not reply to Anne-Marie. “But if you want, Anne-Marie added, you can stay.”
Pauline Réage ~ Retour à Roissy
Photograph: Helmut Newton
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,,and did she?
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Pauline never said. In my version of what follows she quits, but not alone 😉
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That’s good and I hope she was happy 🙂
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I knew there were a number of endings, but I never found all of them. Of course, that was more than 40 years ago.
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