He besieged her with love letters and flowers and took her for long walks on endless stretches of beach. He dressed up in an old raccoon coat to take her to Topsy, a local nightclub; he loved to hold her in his arms during the tango and foxtrot. On the second anniversary of their meeting, after she continued to turn down his proposals of marriage, the young swain wrote her, "When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds . . . he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened...
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