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She skips away in her black go-go boots and halfway down the block she turns around and smiles at me and says, “Bye, chérie, bye, bye.”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
Seeing me coming in the door, Mrs. Levy-Cohen exclaims, “It’s always wonderful, chérie, to see you walking!”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
I must go back to my boat now, chérie.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore
Do not go from here, chérie; talk to the General till I return, which will not be long.
From The Slave of Silence by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
Evelyn, ma chérie, walk with me to The Elms.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
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