Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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A Woman's Body and Some Hair
Barnaby and Lydia have not had a smooch yet. Carrie-eyed, we're going to show you some specific types of love tokens that were gifted by wealthier individuals. You can describe them for us and tell us how you feel about them. How are we excited? I hope it's a lock of creepy hair. Whoa! It's a far off a lock of Creepy Hair. So it's two... Well, one is a locket. Someone has painted very small a mouth, but they have not painted anything else. And there's a brooch where someone's only done an eye and it seems to be surrounded by pearls and it appears to be crying diamonds
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