And Winslet, as the adventurous rich girl Rose, is heartbreakingly lovely and determined: an angel on fire.

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David Marks (Ryan Gosling), obsessed with the suicide of his mother, marries a lovely girl, Katie (Kirsten Dunst), but slowly drives her away with his eccentricities, his violence, and his generally withdrawn nature.

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The smile on her face was unbelievable, she was just a lovely little girl, my baby.

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While the other girls in Thanh's basement learned to dress like Jenny, I found comfort in the girl whose parents were as stubborn as mine: Loan, who remained Loan, which carried a lovely double syllabic.

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