Unlaced: A Socialite's Romance

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d help elevated her aun

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at reverence. She want

thought of having to

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when the nine-year-ol

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ether she was a sist

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cancer. Even her fathe

only in dark and confu

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a wheelchair by an a

al times a day, and ca

ngth to speak to her an

eally been able to kno

else at the funeral, t

ago. Then she had been

nson and Aunt Jennifer

me. It was not long b

ever belonged anywhere

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m

girl into an attractive

little too vivacious,

her', as her au

m

edge, that when one

yes would blash up br

about any matter, howe

folds, and she would kn

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so small and round, an

ips, a slender nose wi

s of a deep blue-blac

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deep brown in color, p

wned with heavy, sic

m

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ly in particular had

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mething which surprise

other artistic hobbie

d her niece to pursue

the craft and now, mu

ded some f

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ily as if she had bee

o put off introducin

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ave. Jennifer, however

age it was time to sta

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