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Because she is beautiful: a novel / Cameron Dougan.
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1. Women—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 2. Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 3. Americans—France—Fiction.
4. Beauty, personal—Fiction. 5. Paris (France)—Fiction. I. Title.
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