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"I wandered into a place called the Dome. There was this incredibly beautiful blonde woman singing, the apotheosis of the Nazi Earth mother, and behind her was this boy playing guitar who had an equally angelic face. It was Nico, and the boy accompanying her was Jackson Browne. Every writer had written for her - Dylan, Lou Reed - but I didn’t know who she was. I just stood there with my jaw agape. My song Suzanne was out (Judy Collins had just recorded it) and I had a credential and somehow I managed to meet her. And within five minutes of our conversation she told me to forget it, because she was only interested in young men. But she said, “I’d love to be a friend of yours” and we became friends. I was madly in love with her. I was lighting candles and praying and performing incantations and wearing amulets, *anything* to have her fall in love with me, but she never did. The years went by and we became tender with each other, but nothing romantic ever came of it. Then one year I bumped into her at the bar of the Chelsea Hotel where I was staying. The Chelsea by then had fallen on evil times. One or two floors were now occupied by hustlers of one kind or another, and there had been a murder a week before, so the place was swarming with policemen…So we were talking about old times, and I thought I detected some remote invitation. I don’t know if it was the drink, but she said, “Let’s go up to your room and talk”, because they were closing the bar. So we went up to the room and sat on the bed, and I sat close to her and she sat close to me and I put my hand on - I think it was her wrist…And she hauled off and hit me so hard it lifted me clean off the bed, and she screamed and screamed. And suddenly the door came down and about 20 policemen came in, thinking I was the killer they were looking for."
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  Leonard Cohen



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