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Eight days had passed since Lilian’s arrival, and everything was fine. The evening was once again phenomenal, and Turner felt like a man reborn. He had become a different person, and he was planning on spending two weeks with the copy of a star somewhere in the world every year. That would be his rejuvenating therapy. I wonder how many people do this, he was thinking. Olivier said that they had another office. There can be hundreds of copies all over the world. I will probably never know the truth.
On the ninth day, the sky was still draped with clouds, but it had stopped raining, and the sun came out several times. Turner wanted to leave the house, so they decided to go on a hike on the Island of Enoshima. Lilian was excited and kept urging Turner to hurry up so they could go, like a
