[It occurs to her, round about this point, that if she takes the gift and opens it (loath as she is to do so), it will by necessity involve ripping the offending paper to utter shreds and casting it away so as to never see it again, and the more she thinks about it, the more that's not sounding like such a bad idea.
So yes, she does in fact take the damn book already, and proceeds to do exactly that.]
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So yes, she does in fact take the damn book already, and proceeds to do exactly that.]