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New love is the greatest drug of all, and he’d been in the Shakespeare and Company vortex for so long, he couldn’t kick the habit. During his fifty years at the bookstore, there had been endless affirmation from women who arrived and fell head over heels for George and the romantic world he’d created. Such a constant rush of love can be dangerously addictive, and George still yearned for it, even at eighty-six years of age.
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