The next day, he wrote to another actress, Catherine Sellars, setting up a rendezvous for the same day ("I'm kissing you already").

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And maybe, when they use the headphones, they'll remember you whispering to them or even kissing their ears.

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So does the wall-to-wall fund-raising that calls for physical prowess ranging from gladhanding and backslapping to buttonholing and you-know-what-kissing.

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