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Valentine's Day Fiction

When celebrities couples fight, we don't usually learn the real story -- unless a British tabloid is tapping the phone. So for Valentine's Day, we asked several acclaimed novelists to imagine what happened behind the scenes as three sexy couples sorted through their issues.

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