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Why did everyone need to be related on this show?


Frankie and Sable were sisters (ridiculous in itself - they looked nothing alike and had different accents) who married brothers, and then Frankie later married Sable's husband. They were also cousins to Alexis, making Fallon a cousin to both of her love interests, Jeff and Miles.

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Totally agree! And the person Miles falls in love w for the first time in his life j happens to be his cousin's amnesiac ex-wife & his maternal grandmother's sister's granddaughter... =|.

Sable & Frankie's differing accents are not-quite-convincingly explained as being due to Sable being raised in England w their mother & Frankie in the US w their father. They barely knew each other until the were 'reunited' at boarding school in Europe.

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