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It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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Temple
Texas
Lisa Kleypas Ellis
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Elusive
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She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.
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I'm not the marrying kind - St. Vincent snorted. No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
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I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.
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Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.
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Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.
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You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you. He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.
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Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. ... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her. Who was it? His own wife. Oh, dear.
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