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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Sweet
Fashionable
Shall
Pair
Open
Resist
Dark
Pairs
Difficult
French
Men
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Fair
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