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6 star literary reads
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Gilmore GirlsTrivial Pursuit 🫶🏻
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PART 2!!!! Definitely go back and look at my part 1 for some of my favorite adult vampire stories if you haven’t seen it yet. Here are two more I love! The writing in both of these stories is very literary and the authors explore deeper themes. Woman, Eating is my personal fave of these -
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Literary Lagniappe
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