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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
Exclusively
Two
Romance
Primarily
Something
Female
Element
Love
Elements
Like
Novel
Aging
People
Relationship
Male
Woman
Caring
Fall
Males
Focuses
Mother
Falling

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