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The Age of Innocence. By Edith Wharton.

It’s 1870s NYC, and you are young, wealthy, from a ‘good’ family and engaged to a similarly ranked young woman, who you think shares some your dislike for the social constraints of the day, but since one of the social constraints is that such things can never be discussed openly, you realize that maybe you’re not in control of your own destiny, and you’re running out of time.

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