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     I were to marry you, would you be happy?”            Anya voice started to quiver, but she seemed more     pleading than afraid.  “Anya good cook.  Anya raise many     children.”            “But could you love me?”            Anya looked at him, a confused expression on her     face.  “Anya not understand.”            Eli smiled kindly at her.  “I would like a wife, but I     want her to be able to love me.”            Anya spoke hesitantly.  “What is love?”            Eli was shocked.  No one had ever asked him that     before.  “What is love?  Well, um, love is...”            He paused.  How can love be explained?  Surely she     must know love, but perhaps she didn’t understand what     the word meant.  “Well, it’s a feeling you feel in here,” he     continued, patting his chest. “You feel it when you are     around someone who means a lot to you.  Surely there is     someone you have felt that way about?”            Anya smiled faintly and patted her own chest.  “Anya     feel good feeling here for Anya’s mother.”            “Yes, like that.  Could you feel that feeling for me?”            “Eli not look like Anya’s mother.”            Eli smiled.  “No, but could you love me, anyway?”            Anya had a look of confusion on her face again.     “How woman feel such feeling for man?  Anya no need     feel.  Eli own Anya.”            Eli stood, and spoke, trying to keep the frustration     from his voice.  “No, I don’t own Anya.” He paused,     taking a deep breath, trying to calm his emotions.  “I would     just want you to be happy here.”            “Why not happy?” she asked.                                       44
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