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Fox imagines his girls as Balthusian waifs, attracting him with a distracted air of seduction.
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America crumbles and she takes to the road, collecting waifs and strays and founding a utopian community in rural Oregon.
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The trial heard him described as a "ruffian" and a "street waif" who never stood still.
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“She was not just a little waif blowing in the wind,” Judge Jackson said.
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She and other characters, like the inimitable Bertie — who makes a “special brew” in high demand — are not waifs of the frontier.
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