China DollForeign correspondent Bronson Bailey, 49 years old, doesn't know what's wrong with him. Is he burnt out by his many years reporting human rights abuses? Is he simply lonely? Georgine Nichols, a decade younger, knows she's lonely-but it's a child she longs for, not a husband. Unable to have children of her own, George has long since given up hope of having a family, until she considers adoption as a single mother. In this tender, moving story, a little girl in a Chinese orphanage-a child whose very existence is a miracle-teaches them both the life-changing power of love. |
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... kiss . She hadn't been thoroughly kissed by a man for such a long time .... It wouldn't have meant anything , of course ; neither of them was looking for a relationship . Still ... It certainly had been fun to let go of her usual ...
... kiss . She hadn't been thoroughly kissed by a man for such a long time .... It wouldn't have meant anything , of course ; neither of them was looking for a relationship . Still ... It certainly had been fun to let go of her usual ...
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... kiss had kindled anything close to the energy that arced between them when they talked . When they looked into each other's eyes ... Your imagination's gone into overdrive , Bailey , he scoffed at his fantasies . A kiss was just a kiss ...
... kiss had kindled anything close to the energy that arced between them when they talked . When they looked into each other's eyes ... Your imagination's gone into overdrive , Bailey , he scoffed at his fantasies . A kiss was just a kiss ...
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... kiss that his feelings were reciprocated . He guessed , from what Mary had told him and from Georgine's earliest responses to his touch , that she hadn't kissed a man the way she'd kissed him for a very long time . And she couldn't ...
... kiss that his feelings were reciprocated . He guessed , from what Mary had told him and from Georgine's earliest responses to his touch , that she hadn't kissed a man the way she'd kissed him for a very long time . And she couldn't ...
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