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"Now I have told the secret trick, the token.
But woman, wife, I do not know if someone—
a man—has cut the olive trunk and moved
my bed, or if it is still safe."
At that,
her heart and body suddenly relaxed.
She recognized the tokens he had shown her.

— Emily Wilson The Odyssey (2017)

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