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I want the ridiculous love story of two people who will fight against all odds to be together.
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I want love. The real kind where two people choose each other over and over again and never give up.
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The Relais ChΓ’teaux gourmet cuisine establishments also happened to be housed in the most splendid real estate, a bit like monasteries, on hills commanding the best views, gorgeous walled gardens, riverside banks, or ramparts in old towns belonging to another era.
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Why are you crying?β Sarah demands, wondering who she needs to kill.
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I pull back a little and look up at him, eyes big. βYouβd do that for me?β
He furrows his brow at me. βDonβt you know Iβd do anything for you?β
I canβt help it. I melt a little bit when he says that.
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I want true love. And a happily ever after.
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heβs been my best friend and my person. I donβt know exactly how to explain what that means, but my mom says itβs someone who gets you in a different way than everyone else. Someone you can talk to or go to about anything.
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I realize Aaron only ever has eyes for me. Thatβs what I want. A boy who thinks Iβm the best thing ever. Because I am.
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I look at Aaron, and heβs still smiling at me. So, I get really brave, launch myself forward, and kiss him on the lips.
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Joel scowls, then turns toward the stairs. βOkay, thatβs it. Iβm punching him.
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Still gonna marry me?β I ask.
βYep,β he says.
βYouβll have to tell me Iβm pretty every single day.β
βStill a deal,β he says with a smile.
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The process of adapting to the new conditions was slow and painful, but it need not have been. It was fifteen years or more before the studios began dimly to understand how best to operate in the new environment. Aging owners and production heads rigidly clung to the old methods of mass production in studio complexes with enormous overhead costs.
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the industry,β the deal had become both more important and more entertaining than the product, and the biggest and best deals involved studios, not movies,
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