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Comparing Lovemaking With Mirah's Virtue By Carl Kedves

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In a world of steel buildings and stone hearts, men and women have forgotten the sexual pleasures of the goddess. Trained in the skills of love and sex, the goddess charges Mirah, her priestess, with tickling libidos and awakening lost delights.

Bitter and distrusting of women, Carl Kedves vows to resist any commitments, until Mirah enters his life. Addictively passionate lovemaking with Mirah jeopardizes his oath. Is Mirah’s love enough to mend his shattered heart and allow her into more than his
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