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The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they’re a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman’s good nature.

The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they’re a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman’s good nature.

Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern

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John Updike
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Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1932 to 2009; Wikidata Q105756, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105756 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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