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Article: Watch this face: Goddess seeks delicious man; Sixty-nine applicants replied to Sophie Parkin's Lonely Hearts ad, providing her with copious material for a new book. Here she talks to Jane Gordon.(Features)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2000
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T he small woman who walks into the crowded bar is certainly striking - dark shiny hair, scarlet painted lips and an hour-glass figure - but you wouldn't immediately describe her as a "goddess".
Yet it was this very word - strategically placed in a lonely hearts ad she composed after the break-up of a long-term relationship - that would prompt a frenetic period of "serially dating strangers" that would change her life forever.
"No I am not a goddess," Sophie Parkin says with a raucous laugh as she sits down to talk about the experiences that inspired her ...
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Article: PERSONAL: The battle-axes are out Relations between a first and ...
The Independent - London;
March 4, 2001 ;
700+ words
...ast month, legal history was made when a man was given leave to sue his former lover for pounds 250,000, the estimated cost of bringing up a child he had wrongly believed was his. The man in question thought he was his son's natural father until the child was seven, when he split up with his
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