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Love in Rehearsal: A Spicy Cozy Paranormal Romance Short Read (The Lighthouse Diner Book 4)

by Evangeline Hunter

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

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“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

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― Katherine Mansfield

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“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

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“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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― Tom Wolfe

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