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    The night before her boss's wedding, Penelope heads to the hotel bar for some cocktails, people-watching, and unexpected conversation.

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    30 Nov 2025

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    texting meet cute omg sharing apartment polin 😭❤️❤️❤️

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    Colin's flight is delayed.
    He texts Pen to keep him entertained.
    Lies reveal truths.

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    28 Sep 2025

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    Just Colin things that keep my expectations high

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    In the year 1822, Mister Colin Bridgerton makes a grand return to England after almost 7 years of self imposed exile and reconnects with his estranged friend, Penelope. Will he be able to break the walls she keeps building between them and mend the bridges she is intent on destroying?

    “What’s stopping you from living your life then, Pen? You’re living alone, aren’t you? No mother watching over your shoulder. No husband dictating your choices…”

    “I mean, I can live alone, yes, but I’m still tethered. To reputation. To expectations. To the knowledge that no matter how independently I breathe, I will always be the subject of whispered pity or amusement. A woman alone is never just alone—she is sad, or defiant, or pitiful… never simply herself.”

    “Come with me. For a month or two. See the world outside Mayfair parlours and boring soirees. You said you wanted to feel free. Let this be that.”

    “But how? Where would we stay? What would people say, Colin? I’m not naïve—I know how this would look. Who would even accompany me as a chaperone?”

    “Spinsters do not need chaperones, Pen. You said it yourself once.”

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    27 Sep 2025

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    Polin trying to get married over and over and polin traveling together 🥲

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    Colin loves Penelope but won't ever tell her. Penelope loves Colin but she has spent the last year trying to move on. Maybe the universe needs to step in with a sign, and sort out their not so unrequited love.

    Maybe that sign comes in the form of a tiny little redhead that manages to wrap everyone around her little finger and forces the two of them to confront the feelings they swore never to share...

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    24 Sep 2025

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    Time travel au modern polin w baby Aggie so goood 😭❤️

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    A single flutter of wings, delicate, almost imperceptible, can stir a storm an ocean away. Such is the poetry of the butterfly effect: the notion that the smallest choices can ripple through time, bending destinies in their silent wake.

    What if she had never gone to that costume party?
    What if, in a rare moment of boldness, she hadn’t seized spontaneity with both hands and fallen into that captivating stranger?
    What if she had never met Eloisee, never uncovered the strange, delicate threads weaving her life into his, long before they’d ever spoken a word?

    It takes only one decision, one heartbeat of courage or chance, to unmake the life you knew and compose an entirely new one.

    Or How a steamy encounter at a costume party leads to a series of secret little dates, sparking a romance neither of them saw coming… ?
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    23 Sep 2025

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    Down bad Colin x pen met at party and reunite