We are Pride

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by  Boston Public Library staff

Boston Public Library
We Are Pride
Books about the LGBTQ+ Experience
Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2020
The We Are Pride Booklist is a list of recent books
for all ages concerning the diverse experiences of
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the LGBTQ+ community and is a part of the Boston
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Public Library's observance of Pride Month and
bpl.org
LGBT History Month.
Boston Public Library
We Are Pride
Zenobia July
By Lisa Bunker
Zenobia July is starting a new
Books about the LGBTQ+ Experience life where she's able to live
openly as the girl she always
Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2020 knew she was. When someone
anonymously posts hateful memes
on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's
the one with the abilities to solve the mystery.
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My Two Dads and Me/
CHILDREN My Two Moms and Me TEEN
By Michael Joosten
These two beautifully illustrated board books
celebrate families with same-gender parents as
The Best at It The Afterward
moms, dads, and kids eat breakfast, get dressed,
By Maulik Pancholy head to the park, and sing good-night lullabies. By E.K. Johnston
Twelve-year-old Rahul, an Indian American J BOARD JOOSTEN M A not-so-reformed thief and an apprentice knight
boy growing up in Indiana, works to find became famous for saving the world together. But
something he’s good at, and questions Pride Colors is there room in their post-adventure lives for their
his sexuality in this funny, semi- new relationship? A tale told in several timelines.
By Robin Stevenson
autobiographical, middle-grade novel. TEEN SCIFI FANTASY JOHNSTON E
With adorable photos of babies, toddlers,
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and families, this rhyming board book gently
Beyond the Black Door
affirms caregivers’ love for their children
Hurricane Season while introducing the colors of the pride By A.M. Strickland
By Nicole Melleby flag and the meaning behind each color. Soulwalker Kamai finds herself entranced by
Eleven-year-old Fig’s father J BOARD STEVENSO R Vehyn, a mysterious spirit she encounters in
is her whole world, and she the world of dreams, although she struggles to
does her best to hide his Queer Heroes reconcile her infatuation with her lack of physical
mental illness, including from attraction. As she investigates her mother's tragic
social services. When a new By Arabelle Sicardi & death, can she trust that Vehyn is what he seems?
Sarah Tanat-Jones (illustrations)
neighbor moves in, she and her father both TEEN SCIFI FANTASY STRICKLA A
slowly learn to let other people into their This group biography for kids
lives in this poignant middle-grade novel. uses a mix of text and dynamic Brave Face
full-color portraits to celebrate the achievements
J FICTION MELLEBY N By Shaun David Hutchinson
of fifty-three LGBTQ+ role models throughout
history and from all around the world. “I wasn’t depressed because I was gay. I
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: J BIOG HQ73.S56 2019 was depressed and gay.” In this memoir,
A Book About Gender Identity Hutchinson shares his difficult journey
By Theresa Thorn & Noah When Aidan Became a Brother growing up, which included an attempt to
Grigni (illustrations) take his own life, and the road to recovery that
finally convinced him things do get better.
Some people are boys. Some people are girls.
Some people are both, neither, or somewhere By Kyle Lukoff & TEEN RC569 .H88 2019
Kaylani Juanita (illustrations)
in between. This inclusive, vibrant picture book
gives kids and caregivers alike the vocabulary After Aidan realized he was a trans boy, he and Cosmoknights
to talk with each other about gender. his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t
By Hannah Templer
fit anymore. When Mom and Dad announce
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that they’re going to have another baby, Aidan Years after her best friend
wants to do everything he can to make things was taken to serve as a prize
The Midwinter Witch
right for his new sibling from the very beginning. princess for a galactic combat
By Molly Ostertag sport, Pan is still seething. She
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In this graphic novel conclusion joins forces with two lesbian gladiators to
of the Witch Boy series, Aster The Whispers destroy the patriarchal games from the inside
decides to defy tradition in this boldly drawn graphic adventure.
By Greg Howard
and enter his family’s annual TEEN GRAPHIC COSMOKNI
contest for witches, while Eleven-year-old Riley always
Ariel struggles to accept her new family’s love thought his mother’s favorite
and explore her relationship with Charlie. story about magical fairies that
grant wishes was made up. But
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after she disappears, he sets
off with his friend Gary to find the Whispers available in audiobook
and ask them to bring his mother home.
available in eBook
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award winner
graphic novel
available in audiobook
available in eBook Our Dreams at Dusk
By Yuhki Kamatani
award winner Wilder Girls
Terrified that he's been outed
By Rory Power
graphic novel as gay, high schooler Tasuku
attempts suicide, but he is Body horror and claustrophobia
stopped by the appearance of the define this tale of a school
mysterious Someone-san. The community center beset by the body-warping
Someone-san leads him to offers him not only a Tox. Amidst the outbreak,
place to belong, but a vision of a happy future. Hetty will do anything to
find her friend Byatt, even break quarantine
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to brave the wild and warped woods.
How to Be Remy Cameron
PET TEEN FICTION POWER R
By Julian Winters
By Akwaeke Emezi
Remy Cameron is the likable and proud gay guy,
admired for his confidence. The only one who Jam has been told all her life that there are
may not know Remy that well is Remy himself, no monsters anymore. That changes when BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
who needs to reconcile the labels that people Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and
have attached to him with who he really is. claws, emerges from one of her mother's
paintings. How do you save the world from
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monsters if no one will admit they exist?
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ
I Wish You All the Best TEEN SCIFI FANTASY EMEZI A Heroes Who Changed the World
By Mason Deaver
The Stars and the Blackness
Thrown out by their parents for coming By Mason Funk
out as nonbinary, Ben moves in with their Between Them
In these interviews and
sister and finishes high school in a new By Junauda Petrus photographs, OUTWORDS, a nonprofit
town. As Ben learns to heal from their
Told in two distinct voices, this dedicated to preserving the stories of LGBTQ+
trauma, what started as a disaster might
lyrical novel is the story of two people, presents inspiring accounts of leaders
become their chance at a happier life.
black girls, one Trinidadian and and activists on the front lines of the movement.
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world that seems determined to deny them both.
Kiss Number 8 TEEN FICTION PETRUS J Brown White Black: An American Family
By Colleen A.F. Venable & at the Intersection of Race, Gender,
Ellen T. Crenshaw (illustrations) Tell Me How You Really Feel Sexuality, and Religion
Mads’ first seven kisses have been By Aminah Mae Safi By Nishta J. Mehra
unremarkable at best, but nothing compares
Years ago, when Sana Khan worked up the Mehra writes candidly about her wife, who
to terrible kiss number eight and what follows.
courage to ask Rachel Recht out, Rachel is white; her adopted son, who is black; and
Navigating the aftermath, she deals with
assumed it was a prank; beautiful people their experiences dealing with America's
falling for her BFF and a huge family secret.
never ask out nerdy film buffs. But now rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality.
TEEN GRAPHIC KISS NUMBER EIGHT Rachel's senior film project needs a lead, Sana BIOG HQ75.53 .M44 2019
is the best fit, and they must work through
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking their feelings so the camera can roll.
Gender Queer: A Memoir
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By Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary
By Maia Kobabe
Valero-O’Connell (illustrations) These Witches Don't Burn
Kobabe charts eir journey of
Laura Dean is Frederica’s dream girl—but By Isabel Sterling
self-identity as a nonbinary
she maybe isn’t the best girlfriend. Even a Hannah, a witch who can control the elements, asexual person. E uses
cryptic spirit medium warns her to break is convinced that the dark magic appearing soft lines and muted colors to depict the
up with Laura, but the break ups never around her town is the work of a deadly sect of confusion of adolescent crushes, the
seem to stick, and Frederica begins to witches. To defeat them, she must team up with coming out process, and the trauma and
worry Laura Dean isn't the real problem. an unlikely partner: her dreaded ex-girlfriend. the fundamental violation of pap smears.
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Moth & Whisper We Set the Dark on Fire How We Fight for Our Lives:
By Ted Anderson & Jen Hickman (Illustrations) By Tehlor Kay Mejia A Memoir
The Moth and the Whisper are the greatest At the Medio School for Girls, By Saeed Jones
thieves in the city, but few know that they young women are trained for
disappeared six months ago, because one person one of two roles: running a Blending poetry and prose, Jones recounts
has been filling both roles since then: Niki, their husband’s household or raising his life as a young black gay man from the
talented and uncertain gender-fluid child. his children. Will top student South as he fights to carve out a place for
himself in his family and his country.
TEEN GRAPHIC MOTH AND WHISPER Dani Vargas cling to privilege, or will she give
up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of BIOG PS3610.O6279 Z46 2019
freedom—and a chance at a forbidden love?
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2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square
available in audiobook
available in eBook The Tradition
By Jericho Brown
award winner
This collection of poems revolving around
graphic novel EXPRESSIONS fatherhood, legacy, Blackness, queerness,
worship, and trauma, celebrates survival
in a world that has normalized evil.
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The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power,
In the Dream House By jayy dodd
and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation
By Carmen Maria Machado In a memoir constructed from poems, blxk
By Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown
Using a kaleidoscopic blend of narrative trans femme author jayy dodd documents the
tropes, Machado articulates her experiences beginning of their gender transition and the This visual record of the Queer Liberation
in an abusive same-sex relationship and how impact of our current political landscape. Movement presents a history of queer
activism from the late 19th century
those experiences shaped who she is today. PS3604.O32 B53 2019x
to the Stonewall Riots to today.
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Disintegrate/Dissociate
Over the Top: A Raw Journey By Arielle Twist
to Self-Love Exploring grief, trauma, and displacement
through her powerful poetry, Twist shares her NONFICTION
By Jonathan Van Ness
identity as an Indigenous trans woman and
It hasn't always been gorgeous her journey towards a softer path in life.
for this beacon of positivity
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and joy on Queer Eye. In
his memoir, Van Ness uncovers the pain The Children of Harvey Milk: How
Halal If You Hear Me
and passion it took to become the model of LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World
self-love and acceptance that he is today. Edited by Fatimah Asghar By Andrew Reynolds
& Safia Elhillo
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A collection of poems by female, queer, than fifty politicians, Reynolds tells the epic
nonbinary, and trans Muslims that delves into stories of courageous people around the
Rainbow Warrior:
topics such as immigration, racism, religion, world who came forward to make their voices
My Life in Color queerness, love, and the intersection of identities. heard in the struggle for equal rights.
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In this posthumously published
memoir, the creator of the Live Oak, With Moss Cruising: An Intimate
rainbow flag chronicles his life, By Walt Whitman & History of a Radical Pastime
from a repressive childhood in 1950s Kansas,
Brian Selznick (illustrations) By Alex Espinoza
through his blossoming into a visionary artist
and social justice activist in 1970s San Francisco. Whitman's personal poems on his attraction From Greek antiquity to Grindr, Espinoza
to and affection for other men are brought examines the political and cultural
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to light by noted illustrator Selznick in a forces behind the radical pastime of
reassembled and reinterpreted visual narrative cruising, combining historical research
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
that explores the theme of same-sex love. with his own personal experience.

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By Jacob Tobia
Through recollections of their Love and Resistance: Out of The Hub of the Gay Universe: An LGBTQ
glitter-obsessed childhood and the Closet, into the Stonewall Era History of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond
struggles against stereotypes, Edited by Jason Baumann By Russ Lopez
activist, writer, producer,
television host and actor Jacob Tobia invites A collection of photographs from the New York From the Trans Day of Remembrance to
us to rethink what we know about gender. Public Library Archives captures the humanity same-sex marriage, Boston and Provincetown
of the groundbreaking protests of the 1960s have been at the forefront of the battle for
BIOG CT275.T69 A3 2019 and 1970s surrounding the Stonewall Riots. LGBTQ+ rights. This work by a local author
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We Have Always Been Here: A
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Queer Muslim Memoir Soft Science
By Samra Habib By Franny Choi Life Isn't Binary: On Being
As an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan, A series of Turing Test-inspired poems Both, Beyond, and In-Between
Habib faced the policing of her explores queer Asian American femininity, By Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker
body and threats of violence seeking tenderness in a violent world filled Challenging society's rigid ways of thinking,
against her religion. After moving to Canada with artificial intelligence and automation. Iantaffi and Barker demonstrate the
as a refugee, Habib encounters racism and
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homophobia—inspiring her fight for truth
relationships, well-being, identity, and more.
and power along the way to self-discovery.
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2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square
available in audiobook
available in eBook
award winner
graphic novel Bury the Lede The Luminous Dead
By Gaby Dunn By Caitlin Starling
College student Madison, an intern at The Gyre Price lied her way into a
Boston Lede, meets Dahlia Kennedy for caving expedition, assuming that
the first time at a murder scene. But when she'd get a skilled surface team to
Dahlia is arrested for the crime, she won't monitor her descent. Instead, she
Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, talk to any other reporter except Madison. gets the cold and enigmatic Em,
Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ who prioritizes the mission over Gyre's safety.
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By Andy Campbell SCIFI FANTASY STARLING C
Campbell showcases five decades of Cantoras
LGBTQ+ community history in this accessible Mostly Dead Things
By Carolina De Robertis
collection of iconic posters, logos, and graphic By Kristen Arnett
art spanning the 1970s to the present. In 1977 Uruguay, five cantoras, women who
“sing,” discover an uninhabited cape which After her father’s suicide, Jessa's
N8217.E6 C36 2019x they claim as their sanctuary. Away from the family begins falling apart.
city they call home, where homosexuality While her mother turns towards
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories is a dangerous transgression, they find obscene art featuring taxidermied
from Red States comfort and family in each other. animals, her brother, jilted
by his wife (Jessa's secret lover), withdraws
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leaving Jessa to pull the family together.
Journalist Allen retraces her journey from
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a Mormon missionary in Utah to a trans Gideon the Ninth
woman living happily in rural Florida. As
By Tamsyn Muir
she crosses the heartland of America, Allen On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
explores queer community and the ways Indentured servant and
By Ocean Vuong
it forms everywhere queer people live. reluctant cavalier Gideon Nav
must join Harrowhark, her A letter from a son to his mother explores
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House's necromancer, on the impact of the Vietnam War on their
her quest to become the family history. Secure in the knowledge
The Stonewall Reader Emperor God's newest immortal servant. she will never read it, he reveals parts of
Edited by Jason Baumann SCIFI FANTASY MUIR T his life that she has never known.
Published to commemorate the fiftieth FICTION VUONG O
anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, this Leading Men
anthology chronicles the tumultuous A People's History of Heaven
By Christopher Castellani
fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the 1960s and
By Mathangi Subramanian
the activists who spearheaded it. At a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote
in Portofino in 1953, Tennessee Williams and his Five young women, including a transgender
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longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, Christian convert and an outspoken queer rebel,
a mysteriously taciturn aspiring actress. The grow up together in "Heaven," a Bangalore slum
When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History encounter will forever alter their lives. that must confront the threat of demolition.
By Hugh Ryan FICTION CASTELLA C FICTION SUBRAMAN M
A vibrant exploration of the forgotten
LGBTQ+ history of Brooklyn, featuring The Long Call The Secrets We Kept
drag kings of the late 1800s, a WWII gay
By Ann Cleeves By Lara Prescott
Nazi spy scandal, and the queer women
who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When a body is found on the At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries
beach, the case calls Matthew— are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA.
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now a detective and married to Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago
his husband, Jonathan—back out of the USSR and help the novel make

into the strict evangelical its way into print around the world.
community he thought he had left behind. FICTION PRESCOTT L
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Lot: Stories
By Bryan Washington By Becky Chambers
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
The son of a Black mother and a Latino Ariadne, an astronaut on a voyage
By Marlon James father comes of age in Houston: working between worlds, transforms her
Tracker, a skilled hunter, is hired to find a at his family's restaurant, weathering his body for each new environment.
missing boy along with a hodgepodge group brother's blows, resenting his older sister's Meanwhile, back on Earth, society
of helpers in this fantastical tale that draws absence and discovering he likes boys. changes dramatically as her mission progresses.
from African history and mythology. FICTION WASHINGT B SCIFI FANTASY CHAMBERS B
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2020 We Are Pride Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children • Books about the LBGTQ+ Experience bpl.org • 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square
available in audiobook
available in eBook
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy Reverb
award winner

By Anna Zabo
graphic novel By Alyssa Cole
When an attack by a stalker lands rockstar
When Likotsi runs into the ex Mish Sullivan in the hospital, her band puts
who ghosted her on a stalled their foot down. David, the martial arts expert
train, the thought of closure has hired as her bodyguard, is more than capable
her agreeing to one last whirlwind of keeping Mish safe... if their blazing sexual
Willa & Hesper tour of NYC. Unfortunately, spending more time attraction doesn't distract them both.
with Fabiola isn’t helping Likotsi get over her.
By Amy Feltman Available in digital format only
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Two young women fall in love, and then
fall apart. From Tbilisi to the war sites of Tea / Coffee
Germany, they discover what can break Raze By Matthew Metzger
and what can mend when you look to By Roan Parrish When John bumps into Chris in a coffee shop,
the past to understand your present.
Felix has spent his life looking after his younger their instant attraction is overwhelming. Can
FICTION FELTMAN A siblings, while Huey's identity revolves they overcome John's fear of commitment
around his work as a sober sponsor. Will two and Chris' family's disapproval in order to
longtime caretakers be able to let someone find a place in each other's worlds?
else take care of them for a change? Available in digital format only
ROMANCE
Available in digital format only
Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvenience
AND EROTICA
Red, White & Royal Blue
By Rebekah Weatherspoon

Xeni is blindsided by the condition of her
By Casey McQuiston inheritance: she has to marry her aunt's protégé,
a shy bagpipe-playing Scot. They find they
American Dreamer After a royal wedding disaster,
have more in common than they expected—
Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son
By Adriana Herrera including their bisexuality—but family drama
of the first woman President of
Nesto Vasquez has six months to make his Afro- the United States, must fake threatens to derail their wedded bliss.
Caribbean food truck a success in upstate New a friendship with Prince Henry of England ROMANCE WEATHERS R
York—the last thing he needs is a distraction. But to prevent an international scandal.
the handsome local librarian might offer a kind
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of happiness not measured in dollars and cents.
Available in digital format only
The Lady's Guide to
Celestial Mechanics
By Olivia Waite
In the wake of her father’s death and her lover’s
marriage, astronomer Lucy Muchelney seizes City of Boston Compiled by Boston
the scientific opportunity of a lifetime and
Martin J. Walsh, Mayor Public Library staff:
runs off to London, where she finds solace and
support from the widowed Catherine St. Day. Jordan Draves
We Are Pride Chairperson, Reader
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Boston Public Library Services Librarian, Central Library
Lord of the Last Heartbeat: David Leonard, President Veronica Koven-Matasy
A Fantasy Romance Reader Services Specialist, Central Library
By May Peterson Board of Trustees Kirsten DeCortin
Reader Services Librarian, Central Library
In an opulent fantasy world, an opera singer Robert Gallery, Chair
Lin Thompson
with the ability to steal thoughts turns for help Evelyn Arana-Ortiz, Vice Chair
Children’s Librarian, North End Branch
to a mysterious lord haunted by his wife's
Zamawa Arenas
ghost and a terrible curse. Will they find love Stephen Toropov
and freedom together, or only another cage? Jabari Asim Teen Librarian, Roxbury Branch
Available in digital format only Ben Bradlee, Jr. Lucas Hall
Cheryl Cronin Floater Librarian
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure Linda Dorcena Forry
Cover photography: June 14, 2014. Boston, MA.
By Courtney Milan Priscilla Douglas Boston Pride Parade and Festival. Boston Pride
Committee. © 2014 Marilyn Humphries
A seventy-three-year-old widow and a Jeffrey B. Hawkins
sixty-nine-year-old spinster hatch a plan John T. Hailer
to ruin the life of the Terrible Nephew who
Representative Chynah Tyler
has gravely inconvenienced them both... and
they might just fall in love along the way.
Available in digital format only
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