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My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Eloisa James

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Eloisa James
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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