“At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.”
Source: The Little Mermaid
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Charles Mallinson in Ch. 19; Charles Mallinson's mother, Maggie, and his uncle, Gavin Stevens, besides being their parents' only children, are twins.
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“She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.”
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Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).