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He was habitually dyspeptic these days—the victim, according to his doctor, of an overrich diet. That which wealth provides may not be the most natural for the body, the man had said. Francis had laughed at that.
And so Kreindel learned the story of Eve’s fashioning from Adam’s rib, and its accompanying lesson: Thus a woman is strong by nature, for she was created from a bone, while a man, created from earth, is weak, and quickly dissolves.
