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If you want to appeal to women renders, give them an attractive villain."
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doubt if there was ever a time when this estimation of woiban's taste in fiction was necurate. It is certainly not ar ate to-day
One of the Mietorian recipes «titt in use: isto begin a novel with a villain and torn him into a hero before the enl of the book. There still fingers in the minds, of sida men who write for women the le that the man of the world who has experienced most emotions, is the man who appeals to womISTI,
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1 monten the coffee with a little cold water and pack it very tightly into ni cafetière, then 1 pour the east of the cold water over very slowly." I leave it while it poredates and the pour du al little. more. The coffee this cours through I make hot..
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