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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    "For thee, Ansonia! Nature’s bounteous hand,
    Luxuriant spreads around her blooming stores;
    Profusion laughs o’er all the glowing land,
    And softest breezes from thy myrtle-shores.

    Yet though for thee, unclouded suns diffuse
    Their genial radiance o’er thy blushing plains;
    Though in thy fragrant groves the sportive muse
    Delights to pour her wild, enchanted strains;

    Though airs that breathe of paradise are thine,
    Sweet as the Indian, or Arabian gales;
    Though fruitful olive and empurpling vine,
    Enrich, fair Italy! thy Alpine vales;
    Yet far from thee inspiring freedom flies,
    To Albion’s coast and ever-varying skies!"

    Sonnet to Italy (1816) by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

     

    What if Mary had accepted Mr Ryder's marriage proposal in Episode 10?

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    11 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    “I can offer you my love and my devotion and my hope to build a family one day.”

    If only life had been so fortunate to them.

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    10 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 87

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    Castiel comes back, human, and suddenly the world feels different. Dean calls him Castiel at first for fun, to mask the weight of everything, but it doesn’t stay a joke. With every repetition, it becomes something else—tender, binding.

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    A story about finding each other, quiet mornings, stumbling into domesticity, farmer’s markets, paint stains and coffee rings, maybe one last case, and the raw intimacy of learning each other without walls. In small rituals, they discover what it means to live without blood and fear, and to love without it.

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    A quiet love story about humanity, healing, and the way a name can mean everything.

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    they get together, kiss, and have filthy sex, too.

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    "The first time Dean says his full name, it startles him, deep, hits him like a thunderbolt. His eyes widen before he can stop it, and the word strokes something ancient in him, as old as the last wisps of his grace holding his skin together, and yet, embarrassingly human. It lands somewhere deep in his chest, somewhere to the top of his lungs, igniting him like a dropped match in dry grass. And something—heat or want maybe—flickers to life.
    Dean doesn't look away. Then he says it again, slower."

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    03 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 71

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    The voice decidedly did not belong to Miss Baxter. It was, however, infuriatingly familiar.

    Thomas Hayward—a junior barrister aiming for a promotion, a poetry enthusiast, a newly made husband, a man of generally affable nature—saw red.

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    03 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 81

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    Mary Bennet is many things, but she never thought she had it in her to be the heroine of her own love story. Away from Longbourn and her overbearing mother, Mary found herself in a dilemma: her wavering willingness to go through with the loveless marriage proposed before her departure. With the wedding announcement on the horizon, as Mary reflects on her future, she makes an unlikely acquaintance that inspires her to sneak some love in her life.

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    02 Apr 2026