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He was grateful Fancy wasn’t making a fuss, that she was already acknowledging he would no longer be in her life. He never promised a woman more than he could deliver, never took one to his bed without her clear understanding that she would never have him beyond the sheets. He thought it should have bothered him that her silence acknowledged the truth: They meant little more to each other than an evening’s delightful entertainment. “You’ll be warming another gent’s bed before nightfall,” he said distractedly, standing at the window, buttoning his scarlet jacket. “I’m going to miss you so frightfully much,” she said, fanning her ebony hair out over the pillow, stretching languorously across the rumpled bed in a spartan room of the tavern where she’d joined him the evening before. She now possessed talented hands and a wicked mouth that had kept him pleasantly occupied until dawn. The numerous weeks of secret trysts had not been in vain. While she was well aware he would not accommodate her in that regard, she knew his notorious reputation well enough to be assured he would provide her with an education in pleasure that would see her in good stead. The illegitimate daughter of a duke, she intended to follow in her mother’s footsteps and seek out a protector. He teasingly referred to her as Fancy, because she was a fancy bit of work. He loved most whichever woman was presently keeping him company. To sleepless slumber parties walks after midnight with no fears cruising the quiet streets of Angleton going dateless to high school dances pep squad long afternoons at the beach football games in the rain Girls State basketball tournament our senior year talking on the phone at all hours for hours powder puff football Bobby Sherman the Monkees sharing the thrill of first kisses, first crushes, and first loves the heartache of breakups the wonder of truly falling in love and all our dreams of what would be … For Patti, Lynn, Pattie, Kathee, Carol, Connie, Linda, Nancy A., Nancy D., and Merrilee

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