Lu Kella

Summary

Lu Kella,  The dreamers (1953)

“ And this Chi-Chi dame's got everything Carmen Miranda has on top of everything good Vera Verina and Mimi has.
Now the samba as she is did down in Rio is, as Frankie's finding out, a combination of a speedboat ride through a tunnel of love, wrestling on a roller coaster and riding a runaway merry-go-round. Frankie's breathing hard but determined to stay the limit, though. He lopes around and spins Chi-Chi and she lopes around and whirls him. She kisses him as she flies in and she smooches him again as she yanks him back.
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Source: Gutenberg

Lu Kella,  The dreamers (1953)

“ I'll build a house—say seven, eight, maybe couple dozen rooms—plenty space for flowers and kids to grow good. And I'll have buggies fancier than any Jake Winer ever seen. Airplanes and yachts too. And will I go fancy-panting? Hollywood. South America—that Brazil place. France. All them places. Hobnobbing with all the other Big Shots and Fancy Janes.
Ain't this America? Where a guy can start from the bottom and hit the top?
So what? So Mary Mulvaney can't see nothing but some curly-head pop peddler with a dinky fringe under his beak.
"Know just how you feel, Frankie."
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Source: Gutenberg

Lu Kella,  The dreamers (1953)

“ Frankie rests a hand gently where his stomach is. "But them loo-loos." Frankie closes his two eyes. "Pop—ain't nobody on earth built to handle them things."
The old man sighs.
Frankie tries to keep his voice from shaking. "Pop—there just ain't no other dame like Mary no place in Creation."
The chair squeaks softly as the old guy just rocks away.
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Source: Gutenberg

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