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On two occasions, in two different countries, I've been stuck in a guesthouse for a whole rainy weekend and the only reading matter was a heap of production-line romantic novelettes. Both times, one of these books (not the same one!) had a Roxanne heroine who was, naturally, beautiful, charming, insecure, almost snared by the conniving villain but ended up with the bland, boring hero. After that, I have difficulty in taking the name seriously. I've never met one IRL.