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Romance novels

A woman poses for the camera with a Mills & Boon novel, in London February 7, 2008. A lot has changed for women in the last hundred years, but for romance publisher Mills & Boon, founded a century ago, it still takes precisely the same qualities to sweep them off their feet. Picture taken February 7, 2008. REUTERS/John Voos (BRITAIN) – GM1DXFJOASAA
A woman poses for the camera with a Mills & Boon novel, in London February 7, 2008. A lot has changed for women in the last hundred years, but for romance publisher Mills & Boon, founded a century ago, it still takes precisely the same qualities to sweep them off their feet. Picture taken February 7, 2008. REUTERS/John Voos (BRITAIN) – GM1DXFJOASAA
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