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BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCES by JOHN UPDIKE

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First Line: THEY INTIMATELY KNOW JUST HOW OUR FORTUNE LIES
Last Line: WE BLUSH TO KNOW THAT NOTHING REAL IS BEING SAID

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS: 1953 - 1993.
  UPDIKE, JOHN
  (1995)
 



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