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Plot Summary of Going Home
"Woman moves from NY to CA with daughter for a change in career. Meets man, gets pregnant and is sent back to NY because man fears baby. Man comes back and wants her to come to CA to have baby, man dies, baby dies, woman goes back to man from NY, and both end up in Europe together."
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Children/Pregnancy: - Get accidently pregnant

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - entertainer
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex makes him - wild
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - less bitchy/arrogant
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - entertainer
How sexual is this person? - a few sexual encounters
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - less bitchy/arrogant
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast - California
Europe Yes
European country: - Italy

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
What % of story is romance related? - 80%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - orgies - impregnation/reproduction
Focus of story - Her
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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