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Someone who wants to give her everything she has dreamed of. Someone who can promise her \u003cb\u003eblue skies, laughter, sun and always, always love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd for a while, life is truly like a song. They stroll hand-in-hand by the Serpentine, dance cheek-to-cheek in Soho's smoky bars, and begin to plan their idyllic future, growing old together in Sol's ancestral home on the island of \u003cb\u003eSt Lucia\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this is 1961. \u003cb\u003eEast End girls don't date West Indian boys,\u003c\/b\u003e let alone fall in love with them and leave the country. They stay at home and live the life their parents planned for them. 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