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European options are priced exactly by a one-dimensional Gauss\u2013Hermite integral of Black prices, an instance of Romano\u2013Touzi conditioning with a static volatility. The model nests the uncorrelated model of Date and Islyaev (2015) at \u03c1 = 0, which has a symmetric smile and, as we show by replicating that paper, was in practice calibrated to Black\u2013Scholes with a volatility term structure. We derive the short-maturity at-the-money skew in closed form: it explodes like \u03c4^(-1\/2) with a coefficient that does not depend on the variance level. On S&amp;amp;P 500 options one parameter set fits six monthly expiries with an implied-volatility RMSE of 0.54 points, against 0.76 for SSVI and 1.15 for Heston, and captures most of the market skew, but its at-the-money skew is 14\u201335% too steep and decays faster than the market's (\u03c4^(-0.52) against \u03c4^(-0.45) with the estimator of Guyon and El Amrani), increasingly so below one month; SSVI and Heston fitted to the same data decay faster still and over-shoot more at the shortest expiry. 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