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The First Time by Joy Fielding

The First Time

by Joy Fielding
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  • Aug 1, 2000, 352 pages
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  • Feb 2001, 352 pages
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Maybe the security of knowing her husband loved her would have given her the courage to love him in return.

Mattie made no move to get up. Instead, she sat in the middle of the hallway, her wet bathing suit soaking into the fine French needlepoint of the large area rug, and laughed so hard she cried.

Copyright © 2000 by Joy Fielding

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