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People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

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Julia Quinn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 12
Author
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Evergreen State
Julie Cotler
Julie Pottinger
Women
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Thinking
People
Courting
Respectable
Nonsense
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Everyone

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Until you've lived through all that, he said, don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me... He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.
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It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.
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Raw toast, Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. It goes against the very nature of man.
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