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    George Loves Gistla
    George Loves Gistla
    George Loves Gistla
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    George Loves Gistla

    By James McKimmey

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      George Loves Gistla - James McKimmey

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      Title: George Loves Gistla

      Author: James McKimmey

      Release Date: August 2, 2009 [EBook #29578]

      Language: English

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      GEORGE

      LOVES

      GISTLA

      By JAMES McKIMMEY, Jr.

      Why don't you find yourself some nice little American girl, his father had often repeated. But George was on Venus ... and he loved pale green skin ... and globular heads and most of all, George loved Gistla.

      George Kenington was sixteen, and, as he told himself, someone who was sixteen knew more about love than someone who was, say, forty-two. Like his father, for instance. A whole lot more probably. When you were forty-two, you got narrow-minded and nervous and angry. You said this is this, and that is that, and there is nothing else. When someone thought and felt and talked that way, George thought bitterly, there was not enough room inside that person to know what it was like, loving a Venusian.

      But George knew. He knew very well.

      Her name was Gistla. She was not pretty in standards of American colonists. She had the pale greenish Venusian skin, and she was too short and rather thick. Her face, of course, was not an American face. It was the face of native Venus. Round and smooth, with the large lidless eyes. There were no visible ears and a lack of hair strengthened the globular look of her head.

      But she was a person. The beauty was inside of her. Did you have to point to a girl's face and say, Here is where the nose should be, here is where the ears should be? Did you have to measure the width between eyes and test the color of the skin? Did you have to check the size of the teeth and the existence of hair? Was all of this necessary

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