infatuation

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You’re Just Too Good to Be True

by Sari Botton February 14, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Kavita Das writes about her childhood infatuation, young adult disillusionment, and later-in-life acceptance of Englebert Humperdink.

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