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[Leanne]

Todd, thanks as always for a wonderful review. Although they were written quite a bit apart, I tend to always think of this as a companion piece to "Kaolin Baths" -- slightly different treatments of pretty much exactly the same thing -- I have limited experience to draw on, you see

In the last stanza, I keep toying with L2. I really don't know whether it works better as

I decreased and stole away

or

I was decreased and stole away

Any thoughts?