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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Andy Sachs' latest matchmaking client comes to her through unconventional means.

    Looking back, that was probably an omen for how unconventional her relationship with Emily Charlton would become.

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    27 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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    Emily checks her watch and realizes they have about thirty minutes before they need to leave, and moves to take off her coat. She pauses as she reaches for the buttons.

    “God.”

    Emily angles her head towards the bedroom door and waits, wondering if Andy banged her knee while getting ready. Nothing else comes through. She resumes taking off her coat, and grabs a hanger. Her hand freezes right as she places it on the empty hook.

    A broken breath, somewhere between a whine and a moan, filters through the apartment.

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    26 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    Andy, determined to become a mother, begins the long journey toward having a baby of her own. Along the way, she discovers that the people who come to love and support her may become just as important as the child she's hoping to bring into the world.

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    26 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    "Do you always come to the door dressed like that?" Emily heard herself ask, and immediately hated it, because it had come out as though she'd noticed, when the entire point was that she had not.

    "Only when someone knocks." The corner of the woman's mouth went up. "Should I have changed? You'd have waited. I'd have liked knowing you were out here waiting for me."

    "Is this how it works over here? You do a favour and then flirt with the woman on your doorstep and call it neighbourly?"

    "Is that what you think I'm doing? Flirting?"

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    Or the one where Emily ends up letting the vampire who is great with her children drink her blood once a week for purely practical reasons. Like super practical. So practical. Please stop looking at her like that, Serena.

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    26 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    She had prepared. This was the part Emily found genuinely alarming. Andy had acquired face paint, red, white, and blue, in little pots, arranged on the bathroom counter beside Emily's serums like a threat. She had bought a packet of tiny American flags on cocktail sticks, the sort of thing that ordinarily garnished a cupcake, and had distributed them around the living room with the solemnity of a general planting standards. And she had, that morning, attempted to paint a flag on Emily's cheek.

    “Absolutely not,” Emily had said, leaning away from the approaching sponge with her whole spine.

    “Just a little one. Just a tiny one. On the cheekbone. It'll be cute.”

    “I am English.”

    “Okay, but for one afternoon—”

    “I am English, I have dignity, and I believe face paint on an adult should be grounds for arrest. On any adult. In any circumstance. I would testify.”

    “You'd look so patriotic.”

    “To a country that is not mine. Andrea, put the sponge down. Put it down. I will pour that pot of blue paint into your handbag, and I will not feel a thing.”

    Or: Andy gets World Cup fever. Emily remains entirely unaffected.

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    23 Jul 2026