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story, in which a man calls his five-year-old daughter on the phone, but without her realizing that the heartbroken caller is actually her father—as he is the estranged husband of the child's mother, who left him before their daughter was born, six years earlier. At the end of the story, the man,
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309:"Quand la pluie finira de tomber"
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