Fool Me Once
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But life changes people. It smothers that kind of larger-than-life woman. Time quiets them down. That firecracker girl you knew in high school—where is she now? It didn’t happen to men as much. Those boys often grew up to be masters of the
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“t could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or maybe Stephen King.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“But after the boozy excess of the ’80s came the swift and devastating hangover of the ’90s.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“was the first sultan to marry a concubine in three centuries; moreover, Roxolana was the first slave concubine in the history of the Ottoman Empire to be freed and made a legal wife.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“She’d always had a taste for luxury (this was the woman who had brought her servants and a bathtub to the front lines while serving as a nurse in World War I),”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“Sofka grew up in St. Petersburg as many other noble children did then, with a grim British governess, tons of toys, playdates with the hemophiliac tsarevich, and no contact with common children.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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