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He could never whine that he hadn't been warned. There had been the famous seduction scene before the fire on Christmas Eve—that alone should have driven him off. And being a doctor himself, he might have known what it is like to live with one. But when have we ever counted ourselves as anything but a blessing? He had decorated the tree with grace, nothing garish; its lights were soft and inviting, with just the right amount of largess under the boughs, coals richly red in the hearth—all this to be seen by her as metaphor for life ever after with him. Having promised to work holidays for his partner for months hence, he had his patients and duties covered for this one evening and readied his nerve to propose. She arrived on time, and a woman on time is as rare as was her beauty. She made quite a
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