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G: With both Roche' and Marcel, you were great friends before and after your affairs. To what do you attribute that?

B: I don't know. I wish you could tell me. I just don't know. And with Reginald, I kept on in great friendship. His little wife - I was very friendly to her. I have no idea what he told her about our relationship. When she wanted a [[strikethrough]] girlfriend [[/strikethrough]] divorce, she came to me for advice.

G: Do you think Roche's novel, "Jules et Jim", was based on your relationship with Roche' and Marcel?

B: Well, you see, I don't know. Several people have told me it was. And he may have told me. I know he gave me the book, and I paid no attention. You see, it never occurred to me that any of this would have any historical importance, or importance at all.

G: Do you know of any other woman in their lives that would have fit the role?

B: Yes. Because the last time I was in Paris, I went meet his German friend, whom he told me - amongst his hundred women, with whom he laid - that she was very, very passionate. And she was an old hag.[[strikethrough]] And we mentioned that, and [[/strikethrough]] she said, "I'm the person in it!" Well, I didn't contradict. If she