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"https://duckduckgo.com/?q=I+cannot+remember+the+name+of+a+novel%2C+love+story+around+time+of+WWII+Paterson+NJ+Italian+girl+made+to+marry+the+man+her+father+chooses&atb=v524-1&ia=web a couple fall in love in high school, she is Italian and he is an orphan takes place in Paterson NJ, she marries man her father chooses, he enlists in navy"