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I have thoroughly compromised your niece, Alex declared. Will you plase insist that she marry me? Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. This, she announced, is most peculiar.

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Julia Quinn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 12
Author
Writer
Evergreen State
Julie Cotler
Julie Pottinger
Bats
Eyelash
Insist
Caroline
Thoroughly
Niece
Marry
Compromised
Peculiar
Eyelashes
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Announced
Alex
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