Word: maidhood
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Sylvia, a single girl from the Bronx on her way to old-maidhood, ostensibly wants more then anything to leave home, but needs her family too much to part ways. And she wants love and experience and life and a lover--if he'll marry her after...
...whose growing neurasthenia takes the uninteresting form of preoccupation with the petty details of his own life. He lives in a menage a trois with his wife, with whom he is only on speaking terms, and his older sister-in-law. Eliane, just shivering on the verge of old-maidhood. Eliane knows Philip better than he knows himself, knows also all about her sister's lover, does not resent Philip being cuckolded because she loves him herself. Her minute caretaking of him gets on Philip's nerves, but it never occurs to him why she does it. At last Eliane...
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