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“I am not the Juliet to his Romeo. I am not the lodestar around which he orbits. I am not the trade wind by which he sets the course of his sails. I am not essential or exceptional. I was his Monday girl. Shitty, really, since he was my whole damn week.”

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Book:The Monday Girl
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