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“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”
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— Molly Ringle<\/a>, Seattle, WA,
winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest<\/a> for worst first sentence of a novel. <\/div>\n

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