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Read the dialogue below and fill in the missing words.

"Damn it, Jane, there's no water here for swimming." 

"Please, Honza, you don't have to talk like that. Just because the dam is broken and all the water drained out is no reason to ."

"But damn it to , who drained the ?"

"We can find somewhere else to swim, like an old that has filled with water."

"You're rotten, Jane. You want water that is not the color of . . . "

"Please, Honza, don't talk like that."

"You are so refined you can't hear a man who is and angry? It's hot. I wanted to go swimming."

"Well, if you took the out of your ears, we could have been in Croatia by the now. We talked about that, remember?"

"Okay. Give me a tissue or a napkin from the lunch basket. I need to clean out my ears. It's hard to listen you."

"There is no reason to be like a little boy and throw a or be sarcastic."

"Just because I have in my veins and it's boiling and making me unpleasant . . . do you still love me?"

"Here's a of pickles I packed for lunch. They will go well with your mood. I'm sorry I may have your disposition."

"Now who is being ? The affect of what you have said me on. Why didn't we go to Croatia? I think you said it would be too expensive and too far away. We were never on the same about the idea of going to Croatia. I wanted to but you said . . . "

"Now my dear, please be reasonable. We are in our own country. It is nice and hot. Talking about Croatia is long past and it's far away. Now, how can we cool today? I am dying to show you my new tattoo."

"New tattoo? Where?"

"You will have to find it. It is very small but in a very nice place, where you like to, um,  look. That is just a ."

"Oh, I see it. It's almost in your cleavage."

"Clever boy."

"This heat is killing me. Pretty soon you'll have to dig my grave and me in it. Then you'll come to the graveyard every November and visit my burnt, frustrated body at there. At least you will be satisfied I'm finally silent, after I've kicked the ."

"The of your continuing to be silly like that is getting on my nerves. Yes, a refined girl can get to the point of being, you know, p#$@ed off."

"My, my. What language is that for a young woman? I am shocked. What is the significance of this change in you?"

"The is . . . well, you will find out if you continue being, pardon me, a . Now I have job for you, if you can calm down and be gentle."

"Okay. I'm calm, cool and collected . . . gentle as a lamb."

"Good. Now I can't seem to put my ring back in by myself. It came out. I can't quite see where the piercing is. Can you insert the into where it should go? Slowly and carefully."

"I'll see. Lift up your top. I need to see your belly ."

"Honza, I didn't mean that. Stop kissing me . Don't. Stop. Don't. Stop. No. Don't. Don't stop."

"It sounds like yes means no."

"Yes."

And so he didn't, and they never went swimming that day. But they had a nice time on the beach by the empty damn dam. 

So the of the story is, "Make love, not war." 

Jane's is, "Sometimes I protest too much which has unintended effects."

For Honza we might say, "Take advantage the moment even if you can't get what you say you want."

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