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Originally Posted by issybird
I loved this when I was a girl, but I couldn’t read it now for the racism. Nor for the abusive relationship that was supposed to be so romantic.
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I started it once and couldn’t get far, but it wouldn’t have had anything to do with moral values.
Just checked again, and the first two paragraphs already are unbelievable nonsense to me:
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The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties
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Which three counties?
Set off to perfection? Wouldn’t the dressmaker try to hide something so extreme?