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    Love Story
    Love Story
    Love Story
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    Love Story

    By Paul Orban and Irving E. Cox

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Love Story - Paul Orban

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Story, by Irving E. Cox, Jr.

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Love Story

      Author: Irving E. Cox, Jr.

      Illustrator: Paul Orban

      Release Date: April 21, 2010 [EBook #32078]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE STORY ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction April 1956. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      love story

      BY IRVING E. COX, JR.

      Illustrated by Paul Orban

      Everything was aimed at satisfying the whims of women. The popular cliches, the pretty romances, the catchwords of advertising became realities; and the compound kept the men enslaved. George knew what he had to do....

      he duty bell rang and obediently George clattered down the steps from his confinement cubicle over the garage. His mother's chartreuse-colored Cadillac convertible purred to a stop in the drive.

      It's so sweet of you to come, Georgie, his mother said when George opened the door for her.

      Whenever you need me, Mummy. It was no effort at all to keep the sneer out of his voice. Deception had become a part of his character.

      His mother squeezed his arm. I can always count on my little boy to do the right thing.

      Yes, Mummy. They were mouthing a formula of words. They were both very much aware that if George hadn't snapped to attention as soon as the duty bell rang, he risked being sentenced, at least temporarily, to the national hero's corps.

      Still in the customary, martyr's whisper, George's mother said, This has been such a tiring day. A man can never understand what a woman has to endure, Georgie; my life is such an ordeal. Her tone turned at once coldly practical. I've two packages in the trunk; carry them to the house for me.

      George picked up the cardboard boxes and followed her along the brick walk in the direction of the white, Colonial mansion where his mother and her two daughters and her current husband lived. George, being a boy, was allowed in the house only when his mother invited him, or when he was being shown off to a prospective bride. George was nineteen, the most acceptable marriage age;

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