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The Impossibility of Accepting Marriage Proposals

"Why he's been okay, wooing my parents, and why he hasn't freaked out is because he's red-jane-hasted. I think it gave him this instinctive playbook for me," Dia says of Austin. In Pride and Prejudice, one of the Bennett sisters, Lizzie, despite her mother's wishes, turns down a marriage proposal. "I possibly should put down a rose on Jane Austen's grave and say thank you," Dia adds.

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