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A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
People
Relationship
Male
Woman
Caring
Fall
Males
Mother
Falling
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Two
Romance
Exclusively
Something
Female
Primarily
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Aging

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