The Independent - London, January 28th, 1996
THE story of little Sarah Cook and her Turkish waiter left decent Sun readers numb with shock, and the Daily Mail called their liaison "a bizarre romance". The shocking thing about it, however, was that it was not a romance. On the contrary: it was true. Thirteen-year-old Sarah really had changed her religion and gone through a form of marriage with her 18-year-old swain. Certainly the romances published by Mills and Boon are expected to end at the altar, but those are fantasies. The idea of a romance as having anything to do with real life is probably less than 100 years old. The first editio...
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