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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
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
"Though, believe me, chérie, I did not know that I was so transgressing."
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
"Ma chérie, what is it, whence hast thou come?" asked the good mother, alarmed.
From A Round Dozen by Coolidge, Susan
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