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DEREK

Her name was Carolyn, and she was damn near perfect

“Thank you very much for dinner,” she said as I pulled up in front of her house “I had a great tiht, as usual,”

Beautiful Sweet Intelligent Twenty-nine years old Divorced froh school sweetheart, no children, but wanted theebra Loved to travel Volunteered for UNICEF Ran marathons

“Me too” I put the Range Rover in park “Let ht there”

We’d been on six dates—one coffee, two lunches, and three dinners—and I’d enjoyed every one of them She was exactly the kind of wo about her turned me off

The proble about her turned me on, either

She unbuckled her seatbelt and waited forout I offered her a hand and she took it “Thank you”

You’re not trying hard enough

Keeping her slender hand in mine, I shut the car door and escorted her up the front walk The June night air ar about the evening whispered romance

“Such a gentleood to know that chivalry isn’t dead”