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A Hopeless Romantic
Harriet Evans
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Extract from The Sound of Music © 1965 Twentieth Century Fox. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman. All rights reserved.
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For the magnificent specimen, my mother Linda.With all my love.
How to understand it all! How to understand the deceptions she had been thus practising on herself, and living under! – The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart! – she sat still, she walked about, she tried her own room, she tried the shrubbery – in every place, every posture, she perceived that she had acted most weakly.
Jane Austen, Emma
Maria: I don’t remember any more.
Brigitta: Your face is all red.
Maria: Is it? I don’t suppose I’m used to dancing.
The Sound of Music, screenplay by Ernest Lehman
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