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Dr. Emily Lawrence, a top cardiologist, begins to treat US President Connie Calvin's son Zach for his heart condition. As a result, she meets Connie and they grow close, starting a relationship. However, both must navigate fraught politics given Connie's position and the homophobia of the American right, even as they fall in love.Written by Scottish author Lola Keeley, it was published in October 2022.
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Butch Lesbian: Downplayed by Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents. She's a lesbian who's described as having a large build and she wears a flannel shirt while not wearing her uniform. As a supporting character though she doesn't get described much further or focused on.
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Disappeared Dad: Robert Calvin, the President's husband, died prior to the events of the book, which leaves her a widow and single mother with their son Zach.
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Parental Abandonment: Emily's parents were both murdered during an assassination attempt on her mother, a Supreme Court nominee.
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Secret Relationship: Connie and Emily keep the fact they're dating secret at first, as Connie's being US President it would put them in the public view invariably. They soon grow tired of this however, with both deciding it's better to just be open on the fact rather than hiding.
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Lipstick Lesbian: Emily and Connie are both feminine women who like dressing up in beautiful clothes to go out on the town together while they're dating. The same goes for Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend. Connie is a lipstick bisexual however, having previously been married to a man she loved.
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First-Name Basis
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First-Name Basis: Connie Calvin, the US President, lets Emily call her by her first name after they meet, which is the first step in them becoming closer.
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Love Confession
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Love Confession: Emily tells Connie she loves her right before temporarily ending their relationship. Connie reciprocates soon after when they get back together while at a press conference.
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places
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Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Connie and Emily have sex the second time in a room of the White House, and more specifically while against the table or on the couch.
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Trauma Button: References to gun violence can still affect Emily due to the shooting which killed her father and mother while wounding sister. Her older sister Sutton also panics on seeing TV footage of the assassination attempt which Connie suffers, as it's a reminder for her.
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Age-Gap Romance
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Age-Gap Romance: Connie is fifty, while Emily's about thirty seven when they begin dating.
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Hereditary Homosexuality
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Hereditary Homosexuality: Emily and her older sister Sutton are both lesbians.
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No Bisexuals
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No Bisexuals: Connie reacts with annoyance when Senator Miriam Randolph criticizes her on TV, asking if the US needs a lesbian occupying the White House, since she's bisexual (which is public knowledge) and even this minor detail is one that Randolph can't get right.
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Second-Act Breakup: Emily temporarily breaks up with Connie toward the end of the book due to her compromising with the Republicans so she can ban certain automatic weapons in hopes of preventing mass shootings, in return for giving up universal healthcare. Given she's a doctor, Emily feels very strongly about the latter (but the former too, as her parents were shot dead).
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Incompatible Orientation
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Incompatible Orientation: Even though Emily's a lesbian and makes no secret about it, her bodyguard Caleb insists on flirting toward her nonetheless, seeing this as a personality quirk his charm can just overcome, which she's annoyed by.
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Dance of Romance
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Dance of Romance: Connie and Emily reveal their relationship ahead of the press release which Connie's staff puts out by dancing together publicly while at a dinner, kissing at the end.
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Our Presidents Are Different
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Our Presidents Are Different: The story's co-protagonist is Constance "Connie" Calvin, the first female US President who's also bisexual, juggling the Presidency, parenting her son (who has a heart condition too) while a widow and beginning to date his doctor (a woman) as she's facing the next Presidential election.
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Emily and Sutton still have lingering trauma due to the shooting which they survived, but their father didn't. Sutton and their mother had been wounded in it too.
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First Kiss
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First Kiss: Connie kisses Emily passionately while they're riding home together after they've gone on their first date together, cementing the attraction which they have for each other.
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Assassination Attempt
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Assassination Attempt: Connie is the victim of one while she's going to sign the gun bill into law at the US Capitol. She's shot, but survives. However, two people are killed, and others wounded.
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Connie is never called Constance by her loved ones, and it's only mentioned to be her given name a couple times.
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Disappointed in You
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Disappointed in You: Emily tells Connie this on learning that she gave up passing universal healthcare so that automatic weapons will be banned, stopping mass shootings she hopes. She feels certain that Connie really could get both of them passed, but won't spend the political capital.
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Twofer Token Minority: Among the supporting characters, three are LGBT+ and black as well. Rebecca and Jill are lesbians; Elliot is nonbinary.
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Alliterative Name: Constance "Connie" Calvin, the US President, has this.
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Strong Family Resemblance
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Strong Family Resemblance: Zach is described as looking like a little clone of his father Robert more than once, which his mother Connie finds painful somewhat since Robert's dead.
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Heteronormative Crusader
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Heteronormative Crusader: The right-wing media and Republicans generally in the book all attack Connie for openly seeing another woman, Emily, after the two reveal it.
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Cast Full of Gay: Not only both the protagonists Emily (a lesbian) and Connie (a bisexual woman) are LGBT+, but most of the supporting characters too. Sutton (Emily's sister) is a lesbian, with a wife, Rebecca. Jill, one of Connie's Secret Service agents, is a Butch Lesbian, and Elliot (among her staff members) is nonbinary. Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, appears too.
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Rotating Protagonist: Emily and Connie are co-protagonists; in the book, the focus shifts between them.
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Switching P.O.V.: The book shows things alternately from Emily and Connie's views.
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No Party Given: Averted almost immediately, as Connie Calvin is a Democrat explicitly (though her policies would give that away very quickly). Similarly, supporting characters are also shown to be Democrats or Republicans explicitly.
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Connie and Emily quickly patch things up, after Connie's survival from her assassination attempt, while committing to getting every campaign promise fulfilled. At the end, they're still happily together after Connie's been reelected later, while Emily is basically living in the White House now with her, with it being made clear they'll be married soon too.
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All Lesbians Want Kids: Sutton, Emily's sister, is a lesbian like her and she chooses to have a baby with her wife Rebecca. Emily is overjoyed and ecstatic for them.
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Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The men who attempt to kill Connie are described as members of violent antigovernment groups and fanatical about gun rights, which is the motive for their attack since she was about to sign a bill into law that bans some types of guns.
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Mile-High Club: The book ends with Emily and Connie going off to have sex on Air Force One while in Connie's bedroom on there.
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Gay Conservative: Brooke, Emily's ex-girlfriend, comes from a conversative, wealthy family and shares their politics. Her mother is the Republican Senate majority leader in fact. This was one reason Emily and she broke up, especially due to their opposing views on guns (Emily's parents were murdered with a legally purchased one, so she's in favor of more gun control; Brooke understands this but disagrees).
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