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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
Two
Romance
Exclusively
Something
Female
Primarily
Love
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Aging
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Relationship
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Woman
Caring
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Mother
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