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

Julia Quinn

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

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