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One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

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Lisa Kleypas
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 5
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I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
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