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Dreaming of The Perfect Romance Novel Nicole Winson
For much of my teen years, I daydreamed each day, indulging in wandering fancies, living in a brown study, and building castles in the air. My mind became a romantic, and, for some time, it was nothing more and nothing less. I was young, inexperienced, and understood love and sexuality only through my starry-eyed imagination. Flash forward to now, and my fondness for romance hasn't dwindled. My dreams, whether they are my nighttime, day or aspirational ones, still without fail return back to my romantic heart, yet much of my fantasies now come from literature. Romantic literature takes up a large portion of my life; it is a significant part of my personality and is a major inspiration for most of my dreams. Many a day, I find myself dreaming of certain romance novels, envisioning their different tropes and writing my own fictitious narrative in my head. There is something about romance novels that make them so addictive, so utterly swoon-worthy and beautifully dream-like, and that is the fact that they aren't real.
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