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So it isn't that the act is awful, but sometimes the man is.""Exactly. One's modesty is useless and it's painfully intimate, but not awful." She took a deep breath."The opposite, in fact.
So it isn't that the act is awful, but sometimes the man is.""Exactly. One's modesty is useless and it's painfully intimate, but not awful." She took a deep breath."The opposite, in fact.
Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
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- Linda Howard
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- Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Linda Howard: documented activity in 1982. Wikidata Q446121, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446121 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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