Check Mate
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Birdie Wilson's problem isn't that she's always the bridesmaid and never the bride, it's that she is always the bride, fiancé and girlfriend but never the wife and certainly not anyone's soulmate. Can she change the constant cycle of disappointment or will the universe seemingly continue to play this cruel game against her?
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