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Do Overdue: Ep 577 - Persuasion, by Jane Austen

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Anne's a Dud

Anne and also doesn't really seem to like both her dad and her older sisters kind of obsession with social hierarchy. Her mom died many many years ago. She has kind of a surrogate mother lady Russell who I think is supposed to be a distant relation and is now like a cool aunt who's filling the mom role. That she's very tight with Lady Russell and really respects her opinion such that eight years before the events of the novel a man named Frederick Wentworth showed up and he and Anne struck up a relationship but he didn't come from any money. He's just a very clever nice boy who's very charming but has no prospects and no land and no family. Sounds like a d

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