Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high,…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you! ✨ The Great Gatsby epigraph (1925)
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