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There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

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Anne Fortier
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
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DK
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Lust
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Paradise
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Honeyed
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Change
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Undo
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Men
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Littles
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Indulge
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