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Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

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Julia Quinn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 12
Author
Writer
Evergreen State
Julie Cotler
Julie Pottinger
Mother
Violet
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Sentence
Come
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Nothing
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Hyacinth
Great
Expect
Hyacinths
Good
Beginning
Pondered
Love
Hear
Solicitude
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