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Tracy Mumford

You're No. 1 in my book: Literary valentines

You're No. 1 in my book.
You're No. 1 in my book.
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Literature is full of great love stories — if you can look past the deaths and the betrayal and the second wife hidden in the attic. (Looking at you, Rochester.)

If you have a bookworm in your life, take a page from these literary valentines.

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Curl up with the one you love.
Curl up with the one you love.
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We'll be together forever. Orwell we?
We'll be together forever. Orwell we?
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It will be epic.
It will be epic.
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