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Character Crush: Todd of Scary Kisses
I hate to reduce the man to trite categories, but for the sake of introduction: Todd is a bisexual Aquarian New Yorker (by way of Pennsylvania) fashion model-slash-collage
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Character Crush: Octave Parango of 99 Francs
Octave Parango is an ad designer and the main character of the acclaimed French novel 99 Francs by Frederic Beigbeder
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The bitch also rises: Christopher Flakus crushes on Brett Ashley
Brett Ashley, the love interest in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, is a total bitch. See,
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Character Crush: Tarzan of the Apes by Karené
Tall, dark, handsome, muscled man-beast with a heart of gold; what woman wouldn’t love Tarzan? I have undertaken the challenge
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Crushin’ on True MacKenna’s inner pirate by Gale Martin
What is it about pirates that capture a contemporary woman’s imagination and stir her longing for adventure? Their savagery combined with a certain suavity? The black tricorne and villainous swagger together with the gentlemanly ascot and shiny frock coat? Pirates
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Tinker Bell: A character crush by Dave Wright
Alright ya’ll, riddle me this: What’s hotter than admiring from a safe distance a beautiful lady with an hourglass figure, a short little skirt, big blue eyes, and a rockin’ pair of designer-style flats? Anyone? I’ll tell you what’s hotter: admiring that same beautiful lady as she opens your
Character Crush: Coco Darling
Coco Darling. Say that name a few times. You probably think it belongs to an exotic dancer. If so, you’re right. How could it not? Notice how your tongue lasciviously licks the back of your front
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Character Crush: Enter the ninja
WARNING: This Character Crush contains spoilers. As someone with a minor ninja fetish, I must admit that when Lane Diamond’s Forgive
Enamored of her, I have become a stalk: An appreciation of Alice by Kenneth Weene
Alice with flamingo (original Alice in Wonderland drawing, 1865, by John Tenniel, via alice-in-wonderland.net) Quiet now. We must not disturb. There are guards and torments, dungeons and death. “Off with my head and off with yours,” a
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Character Crushes: Holly Golightly
“It nagged me like a tune: Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling.” —Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Haven’t we all fallen for a girl like Holly Golightly? She’s flighty, restless,
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Character Crushes: Holden Caulfield
I met the greatest guy yesterday, he is so completely awesome. He was hanging out in the city, I ran into him in Central Park. He was just sitting on a bench, watching people. He looked about the same age as me, 17
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“Unforeseen” author Lauren Grimley’s Character Crushes
The beauty of books is that while we’re reading them we can become another person in another world. When it comes to my choices in fictional men, this is a very good thing. In reality I am a single thirty-something hoping to find a warm, kind gentleman to share my life with. Hand me a book, though,
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