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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
Longhand
Beastly
Romance
Letters
Happened
Love
Soppy
Sappy

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I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
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