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“You look hot, Hart.”
This is a sign of physical attraction

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“And yet i continued  to want her. She filled my head. I thought that if i could cure the hatefulness in me we could love again.”

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“I felt powerless and guilty for loving mitsy so much when the world was in such a mess.”

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“...and mitsy was the one i loved.”

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“Carl asked me to marry him this morning”
Marrying is an act of love and wanting a relationship

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“When she walked in i burst out, ‘Ive missed you.” Misty looked past me and fussed with the sheet at the foot of my bed. ‘My mother needed me’ I was about to say, ‘I need you too,’ the kind of response you make when you’re upset and selfish and not thinking straight, but i stopped myself in time.”

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“You won’t believe this, but I’m in love.”

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Mitsy and hart have a forbidden love for some time as her race isn’t tolerated

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Mitsy and Hart’s love is difficult because mitsy is Japanese and they are together at the time of the war involving japan and Australia against each other

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“Alice” I burst out, “I’m in love with her”

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“...Japanese women named Misty Sennosuke, unaware that I was in love with her

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Hart’s parents don’t know about their love

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Mitsy+Hart= L O V E

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Garry disher expresses love in the novel through the characters of mitsy and hart

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Love is a constant theme throughout the novel