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comprehensible, even laudable, and rooted for her all the way, could notsee her daughter's point in the matter of Gibreel Farishta, the revenant Indian movie star. "To hear you talk, dear, the man's not in your league," she said, using a phrase she believed to be synonymous with _not your type_, and which she would have been horrified to hear described as a racial, or religious, slur: which was inevitably the sense in which her daughter understood it. "That's just fine by me," Allie riposted with spirit, and rose. "The fact is, I don't even like my league."
Her feet ached, obliging her to limp, rather than storm, from the restaurant. "Grand passion," she could hear her mother behind her back announcing loudly to the room at large. "The gift of tongues; means a girl can babble out any blasted thing."
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