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appropriate for 12 year old? How detailed does it get with the daughter of kubla khan?? haha!

George You can check it out yourself for free. Project Gutenberg has transcribed it: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2058.

So far as I can tell from skimming,…moreYou can check it out yourself for free. Project Gutenberg has transcribed it: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2058.

So far as I can tell from skimming, the most explicit passage, in Chapter V, regards some wholly different women, "the great grave lady with the large, pale mouth, her that was of his mind, and the little black cloak-maker with the eager, red mouth, her that was closer than mind or heart to him." The former complains that Polo's poetry says her "bosom is like two little russet apples" whereas "a regular poet once compared it to two great silver cups, and that was a good comparison".

As for the latter:
"I like a hug," she says, "would put the breath out of you, and a kiss," she says, "you could feel in the soles of your feet."
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"Sure, he drank like a fish and beat me something cruel, but he was a rare lover, and the mood on him. Sure, a woman never knows when she's well off," says she.(less)

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