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"Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I've got an instant family, complete with a suicidal brother-in-law and a Gypsy houseboy with the temperament of a poked bear. "Merripen is not a houseboy. "Call him what you like. He comes with the Hathaways. I accept that."
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