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Like footnotes but about the book and some aspects of its creation. Not too much information since that would take away from the work itself. I add notes from time to time, thus the reverse order of things, latest on top to earliest below. */*/* 12. A philosopher, sometime English teacher, noted in the promo piece at the beginning that perhaps instead of un-virgining I should have used the prefix de. Here is my thinking and below that a "defense." for not making the edit. At least not the substitution. The beauty that would have our hero de-flower her in preparation for "doing it" for real/love with her boyfriend, was to my mind virgining. That is, she was saving herself till later than most for losing(?) her virginity. Thus the verb to virgin and the verbal virgining, a sustained effort to maintain her virginity, or something like that. When Ron came along, he was thought to be the one to undo what she was doing, never to return back to her previous sta...
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