Broken Heart Syndrome

 Romantic Comedy
Author: Susie Tate

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Broken Heart Syndrome

Shy, reclusive Frankie and her best friend Lou obsess over Thomas G. Longley, as they reverently refer to him, for their entire first two years of medical school. So when he publicly humiliates her at the student bar she is devastated.

Ten years later, Frankie has to work in the testosterone driven environment of Cardiology before she can start her palliative care training and, to her dismay, Tom is her boss.

Thankfully the subject of her long-term crush doesn’t seem to remember her and, given her ability to blend into the background, she’s not really surprised. What does surprise her is how cruel he is. Sure he squished her self esteem like a bug at Uni, but the Tom she spent many a pointless lunch break or library session covertly watching seemed easy going and quick to smile; not an uptight, overly critical bully.

Between passing out in theatre and being covered head to foot in the bloody vomit of ‘Scary Glenda’ (A&E’s most frequent, frequent flyer), she can’t wait to get through the six months.

Prior Engagements

 Women’s Fiction > Humor
Author: Sarah Goodwin, Vikkie Moule

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Prior Engagements

Annie is not enjoying her roaring-twenties as much as she should be. She’s been jilted at the altar by Stephen-the-indecisive, is paying off a mountain of wedding debt by holding down two jobs, and her flat is mostly made of cardboard and spackle.

Then at work she meets a man in need of a date to his ex-fiancée’s wedding. Annie goes, and one wedding and four bottles of wine later, she finds herself getting married in Vegas to Dorian, an erotic illustrator.

Of course, it’s all great and romantic, until someone loses an eye, which here means, ‘until Annie gets home, and realises that her best friend (and boss) Will, has kind of been working up to popping the question himself. Will is not happy to see Annie married, in fact he’s willing to trade his Mohawk and every Ke$ha CD he owns to get Dorian out of the way.

Vivian’s List (The List Book 1)

  Romance > New Adult
Author: Haleigh Lovell

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Vivian's List (The List Book 1)

Her brother’s best friend. A list. A love story.
After ending a horrible, scarring relationship, Vivian embraces her freedom by making a sexual bucket list. When her brother’s best friend, Liam, finds it, sparks fly and hearts open.
Can Vivian heal one steamy encounter at a time?

The Body in the Bungalow (A Divine Detective Agency Book 1)

 Mystery > Private Investigators
Author: A.L. Jambor

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The Body in the Bungalow (A Divine Detective Agency Book 1)

Meet Nick Dandino – P.I. in the sky. He runs the Divine Detective Agency. Were you murdered but can’t remember who killed you? Nick will solve your case so you can rest in peace.

Nick Dandino is a hard-boiled private dick. He loves Starbucks caramel macchiatos and taking long, hot baths. His office is next to the reception center in heaven where the newly deceased are processed. When a soul has been murdered, they have no memory of their death, and it’s Nick’s job to find out who killed them. It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. When he dons a traveling suit, Nick can walk on Earth as one of the living.

The Body in the Bungalow introduces us to Nick and his assistant, Pris. This case revolves around a young woman named Dee who comes to Nick to find out how she died. In the course of his investigation, Nick goes to the Jersey shore where the 1960s are in full swing. Long-haired boys, mini-skirted girls, and memories of hamburgers at Jenkison’s on the boardwalk at Point Pleasant. At first, dames with secrets and cops on the take hinder Nick’s progress, and Nick smells a rat. Can he find Dee’s killer before the trail grows cold?

Afghan Sunset: A Jackson Pike Novella (Prequel to The Iron Triangle Series)

 Thrillers > Conspiracies
Author: Patrick Adams

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Afghan Sunset: A Jackson Pike Novella (Prequel to The Iron Triangle Series)

In this prequel to The Iron Triangle Series, Jackson Pike and SEAL Team 6 are assigned to Operation Afghan Sunset: a night-time raid of a suspected Afghan weapons depot.

The mission is simple.

The SEALs, led by Lieutenant Jackson Pike are to infiltrate the facility, gather intelligence, and destroy the complex with a minimum number of civilian casualties.

But when the mission goes horribly wrong, Jackson Pike finds himself fighting for his life and his honor against forces darker and more powerful than any he’s ever confronted on the battlefield.

Missing Royal (Finding Gold Book 1)

 Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Konstanz Silverbow

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Missing Royal (Finding Gold Book 1)

One princess destroyed the world. One princess must save it.

When she was little she wished to be a princess. Now as a teenager she just wishes she fit in. But Shanice doesn’t feel like she belongs, she never has.

When her parents tell her she is the last known princess from another world, it all makes sense. A world full of magic in place of technology. One where she is more than just royalty, she is their last chance to stop the one who is bent on destroying it. Mendina.

But she can’t do it alone, first she must find the other missing royals. In her quest, Shanice will be forced to choose between the course prophecy set for her, and the one that leads to the man her heart belongs to.

The Good Girl

 Psychological Thrillers
Author: Mary Kubica

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The Good Girl

One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn’t show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia’s life.

When Colin decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota instead of delivering her to his employers, Mia’s mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them. But no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family’s world to shatter.

An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, The Good Girl is a propulsive debut that reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems.

The Theory of Opposites

 Women’s Fiction > Literary
Author: Allison Winn Scotch

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The Theory of Opposites

What happens when you think you have it all, and then suddenly it’s taken away?

Willa Chandler-Golden’s father changed the world with his self-help bestseller, Is It Really Your Choice? Why Your Entire Life May Be Out of Your Control. Millions of devoted fans now find solace in his notion that everything happens for a reason. Though Willa isn’t entirely convinced of her father’s theories, she readily admits that the universe has delivered her a solid life: a reliable husband, a fast-paced career. Sure there are hiccups – negative pregnancy tests, embattled siblings – but this is what the universe has brought, and life, if she doesn’t think about it too much, is wonderful.

Then her (evidently not-so-reliable) husband proposes this: a two-month break. Two months to see if they can’t live their lives without each other. And before Willa can sort out destiny and fate and what it all means, she’s axed from her job, her 12 year-old nephew Nicky moves in, her ex-boyfriend finds her on Facebook, and her best friend Vanessa lands a gig writing for Dare You!, the hottest new reality TV show.

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

 Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk

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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that really works.

When managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they plan for the “right hook”—their next sale or campaign that’s going to knock out the competition. Even companies committed to jabbing—patiently engaging with customers to build the relationships crucial to successful social media campaigns—want to land the punch that will take down their opponent or their customer’s resistance in one blow. Right hooks convert traffic to sales and easily show results. Except when they don’t.

Promise of Blood (Powder Mage series Book 1)

 Fantasy > Epic
Author: Brian McClellan

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Promise of Blood (Powder Mage series Book 1)

The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it.

It’s a bloody business overthrowing a king…
Field Marshal Tamas’ coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas’s supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.

It’s up to a few…
Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.

Seasons’ End

 Women’s Fiction > Romance
Author: Will North

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Seasons' End

Every summer for generations, three families intertwined by history, marriage, and career have spent “the season” at their beach cottage compounds on an island in Puget Sound. Today, Martha “Pete” Petersen, married to Tyler Strong, is the lynchpin of the “summer people.” In childhood, she was the tomboy every girl wanted to emulate and is now the mother everyone admires.
Colin Ryan, family friend and the island’s veterinarian, met Pete first in London, years earlier, when she visited his roommate, Tyler. He’s loved her, privately, ever since. Born in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, son of a bar owner, he’s always been dazzled by what he sees of the sun-kissed lives of the summer people.

But this summer, currents strong as the tides roil: jealousies grow, tempers flare, passions clash. Then, on the last day of the season, a series of betrayals alters the combined histories of these families forever.

Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin Book 1)

 Science Fiction > Steampunk
Author: Richard Ellis Preston Jr.
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Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin Book 1)

In a post-apocalyptic world of endless snow, eighteen-year-old Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders. Steaming over a territory once known as Southern California–before it was devastated in the alien war–Buckle navigates his massive airship through skies infested with enemy war zeppelins and ravenous alien beasties in this swashbuckling and high-octane steampunk adventure. Life is desperate in the Snow World–and death is quick–Buckle and his ship’s company must brave poisoned wastelands of noxious mustard and do battle with forgewalkers, steampipers and armored locomotives as they plunge from the skies into the underground prison warrens of the fortress-city.

Romulus Buckle & the Engines of War (The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin Book 2)

 Science Fiction > Steampunk
Author: Richard Ellis Preston Jr.
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Romulus Buckle & the Engines of War (The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin Book 2)

The frozen wasteland of Snow World—known as Southern California before an alien invasion decimated civilization—is home to warring steampunk clans. Crankshafts, Imperials, Tinskins, Brineboilers, and many more all battle one another for precious supplies, against ravenous mutant beasts for basic survival, and with the mysterious Founders for their very freedom.

Through this ruined world soars the Pneumatic Zeppelin, captained by the daring Romulus Buckle. In the wake of a nearly suicidal assault on the Founders’ prison city to rescue key military leaders, both the steam-powered airship and its crew are bruised and battered. Yet there’s little time for rest or repairs: Founders raids threaten to shatter the fragile alliance Buckle has risked everything to forge among the clans.

Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

 Nature & Ecology > Animal Rights
Author: Peter Singer

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Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (40th Anniversary Edition)

The groundbreaking book that challenged the ethics of our treatment of animals and jump-started the animal rights movement—with a new preface by the author.

First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world’s philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer’s landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that all beings capable of suffering deserve equal consideration, Singer contends that the only justifiable treatment of animals is that which maximizes good and minimizes suffering. In examining the cruelty of factory farming and the exploitation, both commercial and scientific, of laboratory animals, he identifies a kind of “ethical blindness” and calls for political action.




 

Tempting Harry (The Elmo Jenkins Novelettes Book 3)

Christian Fiction > Humor & Entertainment
Author: McMillian Moody

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Spend some time with Harry Simpkins, the larger-than-life Minister of Music at First Church. Whether he’s having a sanctified fist fight with another staff member, or bringing down the house with his infamous Tex Larimore routine, Harry is always unforgettable. Catch up with Harry and find out about his latest shenanigans. Harry’s been on staff at First Church for two decades, but a surprise letter could change everything. Will he stay or will he go? Tune-in to find out in this third Elmo Jenkins Novelette by author McMillian Moody.

 

Once Burned: A Night Prince Novel

 Romance > Paranormal > Witches & Wizards
Author: Jeaniene Frost

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Spinning off from her wildly successful, New York Times bestselling Night Huntress novels featuring vampire soulmates Cat and Bones, Jeaniene Frost kicks off the thrilling new Night Prince series withOnce Burned. Vlad Tepesh, the ruthless master vampire and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s dark legend (but don’t dare call him Dracula) encounters a mortal woman with unimaginable power… including the ability to enflame his cold heart. Paranormal romance and urban fantasy fans who hunger for the novels of Kim Harrison, Christine Feehan, and Charlaine Harris are going to love The Night Prince and this dark and steamy tale of supernatural attraction.

 

Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Jeaniene Frost

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Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges . . . Leila’s psychic abilities have been failing her,and now she isn’t sure what the future holds. If that weren’t enough, her lover Vlad has been acting distant. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she’s also a modern woman who refuses to accept the cold shoulder treatment forever–especially from the darkly handsome vampire who still won’t admit that he loves her. Like choosing between eternal love and a loveless eternity . . . Soon circumstances send Leila back to the carnival circuit, where tragedy strikes. And when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer who may be closer than she realizes, Leila must decide who to trust–the fiery vampire who arouses her passions like no other, or the tortured knight who longs to be more than a friend?

 

Bound by Flames: A Night Prince Novel

  Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Jeaniene Frost

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Play with fire, pay the price Leila’s years on the carnie circuit were certainly an education. What she didn’t learn: how to be a vampire, or how to be married to the most famous vampire of them all. Adjusting to both has Leila teetering on a knife edge between passion and peril, and now the real danger is about to begin . . . Vlad must battle with a centuries-old enemy whose reach stretches across continents and whose strength equals his own. It isn’t like Vlad to feel fear, but he does . . . for Leila, because his enemy knows she is Vlad’s greatest weakness.

 

A Season of Love (Kauffman Amish Bakery Series Book 5)

 Fiction > Romance > Amish
Author: Amy Clipston

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In the fifth and final novel of the Kauffman Amish Bakery series, three young women are about to change their lives. Lizzie Anne and Samuel have decided to get married, and Lindsay is about to be baptized in the Amish faith and is courting Matthew. While Katie Kauffman is happy for her friends who seem to have settled their futures, she is also finding herself something of a fifth wheel. When Lindsay’s sister Jessica returns to Bird-in-Hand, she finds that Jake Miller has moved on with his life. He lost hope that Jessica would ever be satisfied to settle in rural Pennsylvania and takes comfort in becoming close friends with Katie. However, it’s not an easy road as Jake is Mennonite and Katie has just been baptized in the Amish faith. Her father forbids them to see each other, intent that his daughter marry an Amish man.

 

A Dangerous Madness (Regency London Series Book 3)

 Historical Romance > Regency
Author: Michelle Diener

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The Duke of Wittaker has been living a lie… He’s been spying on the dissolute, discontented noblemen of the ton, pretending to share their views. Now he’s ready to step out of the shadows and start living a real life…but when the prime minister of England is assassinated, he’s asked to go back to being the rake-hell duke everyone still believes he is to find out more. Miss Phoebe Hillier has been living a lie, too… All her life she’s played the game, hiding her fierce intelligence and love of life behind a docile and decorous mask. All it’s gotten her is jilted by her betrothed, a man she thought a fool, but a harmless one. But when she discovers her former fiancé was involved in the plot against the prime minister, and that he’s been murdered, she realizes he wasn’t so harmless after all.

 

The Shadow Of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy Book 1)

 Fantasy > Coming of Age
Author: James Islington

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It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs – once thought of almost as gods – were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs’ fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion’s Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience. As a student of the Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war fought – and lost – before he was born. Despised by most beyond the school walls, he and those around him are all but prisoners as they attempt to learn control of the Gift. Worse, as Davian struggles with his lessons, he knows that there is further to fall if he cannot pass his final tests.

 

Extra Mile: 500 Customer Service Tips for Success: Tools to Attract, Satisfy, & Retain Even the Most Difficult Customer

 Business & Money > Customer Service
Author: Tycho Press

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Even the most successful companies need their customers happy and keep coming back for more. Whether you’re just starting your business and want to lock up great customer service procedures, or you’re an established company looking to revamp your customer service to answer new market needs, this is the resource for you. Unlike other books, brimming with irrelevant and outdated information, Extra Mile offers: • 500 essential tips, divided into eight parts, including: Real-Life Scenarios, Crisis Management, and Building Customer Loyalty • Intel into the customer service secrets of business giants, such as American Express, Southwest Airlines, and Ritz-Carlton Hotels • A section dedicated to providing excellent customer service online • A guide for avoiding conflict and negative reviews with a list of 50 Things Never to Do

 

African Laughter

 Biographies & Memoirs > Authors
Author: Doris Lessing

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The British author writes about her homeland–from which she was exiled by the former all-white government–discussing political corruption, AIDS, communal living, and much more. A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is “brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country.”–New York Times Book Review

 

Wayward Pines: GENESIS Collection (Kindle Worlds)

 Science Fiction > Dystopian
Author: Steven Konkoly

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David Pilcher predicted mankind’s fall. The world as everyone knew it would be gone when his people emerged to rebuild Wayward Pines–a cozy, idyllic town hidden in the Idaho mountains. Only one obstacle stands in the way. An enemy far deadlier than Pilcher ever imagined possible. A powerful, uncompromising adversary–immune to fear and devoid of mercy. Humankind’s worst nightmare.With the odds overwhelmingly stacked against the success of project GENESIS, Pilcher takes a wild chance on an unpredictable member of his team. Adam Hassler, former Delta Force officer, is woken early and ordered to explore the valley. The task sounds simple to Hassler, but there’s a catch. He is unaware of the lethal menace waiting in the forest–and nobody plans to warn him.

 

Bite Me (The Demon Underground Series Book 1)

 Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Parker Blue

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Barely eighteen-year-old heroine Valentine Shapiro got a raw deal in the parent lottery. Her father was part incubus demon, and her mother’s never forgiven her for that.Life after high school is tough enough without having to go 15 rounds with your inner demon. Thrown out of the house by her mother, Val puts one foot in front of the other and does the only thing that seems to make any sense–she takes aim at the town vampires. A stake a day, keeps the demon at bay. (But don’t call her Buffy. That makes Lola, her demon, very cranky.) Her dark side makes everyday life a roller coaster, but means she’s perfect for her night job as a bounty hunter. San Antonio’s vampires are out of control, and it’s up to Val, her faithful hellhound Fang, and her new partner, a handsome San Antonio police detective, to get the deadly fangbangers off the city streets.

 

Catch Me (The Demon Underground Series)

 Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Parker Blue

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What’s a vampire slayer to do when San Antonio’s vampire leader goes missing and rogue vampires are suddenly on the rise? Find him and bring him back–no matter what the cost–before the vacuum of power pits vampire against vampire in a deadly showdown for supremacy . . . with her boyfriend Austin’s immortal life at stake. When she discovers that her ex, Shade, may have been “accidentally” responsible, Val Shapiro’s problems take on a whole new dimension and her loyalty to everyone in her life will be tested. Parker blue lives in the wilds of Colorado with her own faithful hellhound, and she’s hard at work on the next Val Shapiro book in the Demon Underground Series.

Fang Me (The Demon Underground Series Book 3)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Parker Blue

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The vampires want it. The demons want it, too. And someone is willing to kill Val for it. Val and Fang have to find the powerful Encyclopedia Magicka before either of San Antonio’s warring underworld factions locate it or the consequences will be deadly for the entire city. As usual, Val’s vampire enemies (they still call her The Slayer) want her dead. Even some of her fellow demons may be less than trustworthy, since they’d like to grab the legendary book of spells before she does. Val has a personal claim to the Encyclopedia–her demon father left it to her when he died–but someone stole it recently. And that can’t be good. Battling vamps and dodging demons, Val struggles to unravel the mystery and find the thief. At the same time, she’s fighting her attraction to sweet, sexy Shade–her favorite shadow demon. Rumor has it that Val will lose her part-demon, vampire-fighting powers if she gives herself to him.

 

Epic Fail

 Young Adult > Romance > Contemporary
Author: Claire LaZebnik

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Will Elise’s love life be an epic win or an epic fail? At Coral Tree Prep in Los Angeles, who your parents are can make or break you. Case in point: As the son of Hollywood royalty, Derek Edwards is pretty much prince of the school—not that he deigns to acknowledge many of his loyal subjects. As the daughter of the new principal, Elise Benton isn’t exactly on everyone’s must-sit-next-to-at-lunch list. When Elise’s beautiful sister catches the eye of the prince’s best friend, Elise gets to spend a lot of time with Derek, making her the envy of every girl on campus. Except she refuses to fall for any of his rare smiles and instead warms up to his enemy, the surprisingly charming social outcast Webster Grant. But in this hilarious tale of fitting in and flirting, not all snubs are undeserved, not all celebrity brats are bratty, and pride and prejudice can get in the way of true love for only so long.

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