So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long await… - Italo Calvino

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So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long awaited by Cosimo and which had now inexplicably arrived, and so lovely that he could not imagine how he had even thought it lovely before. And the thing newest to him was that it was so simple, and the boy at that moment thought it must be like that always.