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Girl next door
Archetype of a cute, kind, unassuming, and honest woman or girl, often in a romantic story / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the stock character. For other uses, see Girl Next Door (disambiguation).
The girl next door is a young female stock character who is often used in romantic stories. She is so named because she often lives next door to the protagonist or is a childhood friend. They start out with a mutual friendship that later often develops into romantic attraction.
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A similar expression is "boy next door".