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They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.
Lisa Kleypas
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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
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If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.
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I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding. To save your reputation? Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. Someone has to make a respectable man of me.
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