It’s official! Sarah has broken the glass and taken Marrying Winterborne out of the vault and she has exactly as much to say about it as you expect! We’re talking perfect heroes, heroines who deserve to be revered, brilliant writers and plots that require the kind of skill you only get with Lisa Kleypas. Rhys Winterborne is nearly crushed by a building and still shows up at traditional calling hours (with 30 minutes to spare) to propose. An absolute king.

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Show Notes

• Maybe you’d like a very fast-talking man to describe the organization and countries of the United Kingdom to you, so watch this video Jen shows her students.
• Rhys Winterborne isn’t the only one who thinks Wales is better than England.
• Along with being a guy you definitely wouldn’t want to be your dad, the word Albion means England.
• They say Helen of Troy started a whole war, but probably a bunch of dudes were just looking for something to fight about.
• The state of Sex Education in America is bad and getting worse.
• The oathing stone in weddings, and Rhys’s description of the word hiraeth, along with the TikTok Sarah mentioned.
• We partnered with The Bawdy Bookworms, and selected A Caribbean Heiress in Paris as the book! Check it out!
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The Rest

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