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There Was a Time

Two beautiful women wanted Frank Clair - the handsome, talented, sensitive artist, aflame with an adventurer's passion for life, and with a burning lust for money, fame, and women....

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One would give him all she had - a voluptuous blond beauty forced by poverty into prostitution. It was she who first took this twisted, angry young man and taught him his earliest, soul-searching lessons in tenderness and passion....

And one would take all he had to give - a ravishing, high-born, dark-haired vixen who taunted the young writer for his crude, urgent longings, who ever haunted and tormented him - and yet spurred him on to incredible heights of literary achievement and fame....

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self-help
Audience
adult

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