how many instances of s are there in:
marcello describes the evening as filled with flirtation and kino, revelations and hopes. revelations �jordan declared that shed been engaged up until recently to a man that had poisoned her life. this man was emotionally abusive and cold-hearted. a cold-hearted snake, she said, which reminded marcello of an old paula abduls song. hopes �jordan explained how much better she felt now that shed been single for a while for she was very certain that, if she fell in love again, she wouldnt make the same mistakes. my heart has healed and i am going to hang on to my dreams, she proclaimed.
marcello says that, were it not be for this situation, hed have never checked those old files where he found an idea for a tragicomic story, an idea he had forgotten altogether. it was about this environmentalist whos stung by a scorpion as hes hugging a tree during a protest in south america. hours later, the environmentalist dies of a heart attack caused by the fright of the experience.
i suspect that there lies the key to marcellos experience with jordan. sometimes you just cant afford to feel young again.
love the marcello stories.

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I found sixty "s"s in the provided passage.
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