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Plot Summary of Come Lie With Me
"Dione is a well known therapist and her great successes in making people walk again are said to be miracles, but when she is sought to return a dying man back to health and to make him walk she is not sure about taking on the patient. After seeing a picture of a man who was comfortable in land, air and sea and then compare it to a man who had surpassed all expectations of recovery but who still couldn't walk she decided that she would make him walk again. It would take all her physical an emotional strength to save him, but to do so she had to first break the wall around her that was made because of her horrible past. They would have to help each other and let the power of love heal all wounds, both physically and emotionally."
Cristina, Resident Scholar

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Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult? - disabled/ugly
If one lover chases another... - they alternate
Caretaker, in love with Yes
Falling in love with - Nurse

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - engineer
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - less bitchy/arrogant - sensitive
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - doctor/medical
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
Eccentric: - emotionally unstable
How sexual is this person? - frigid
How romantic is this person? - as romantic as a root canal
effect of sexing - confused - scared
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Physique - very athletic

Setting
United States Yes
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - nearly 100%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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