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Roland, a beekeeper, proposes to his physicist girlfriend, Marianne.
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START: Roland: “There’s something I’d like to say. To you. (Roland takes a piece of A4 paper from a pocket and reads.) There are three different kinds of bees. The drones, the workers and the single, solitary queen.�
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END: Roland: “I am uncertain when it comes to a great many things. But there is one thing I am definitely certain of. (Roland folds up the piece of paper, puts it back in his pocket and -- from another pocket -- takes out a small black box.) Marianne Aubele, will you marry me?�
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Payne, Nick. Constellations, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, pp. 49.
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